Victoria University Vice Chancellor Dr. Lawrence Muganga has brushed off suggestions that he is still nursing regrets over Parliament’s rejection of his nomination as State Minister for Internal Affairs, insisting instead that the career he has already built gives him both professional satisfaction and financial comfort.
Muganga said he is genuinely happy with his current job and well compensated for it, going as far as to claim, “No minister gets the amount of money I earn every month,” adding that his earnings are more than double what a minister takes home.
His nomination had dominated public conversation after Parliament’s Appointments Committee declined to approve it over questions raised about his citizenship. Rather than treat that outcome as a setback worth revisiting, Muganga says he has simply moved on, staying focused on running Victoria University and seeing no reason to measure his career against those currently serving in government.
The vetting saga also placed Muganga at odds with Deputy Speaker of Parliament Thomas Tayebwa, who chaired the Appointments Committee during the process. Despite that friction, Muganga says he holds no personal grudge against Tayebwa and would welcome an opportunity to sit down and iron out their differences through direct conversation, saying he would like to understand the reasoning behind what was said about him during the vetting.
