State Minister For Water And Environment, Beatrice Atim Anywar Comes Under Criticism From Mps!

The State Minister for Water and Environment, Beatrice Atim Anywar on Tuesday came under criticism from Members of Parliament for losing her passion in the fight against environmental degradation.
It followed a heated debate during the plenary sitting following the report of the Committee on Climate Change that related to a motion for a resolution of Parliament urging the Government to address climate change in the country.
In April 2007, Anywar, the then Kitgum District Woman MP under the opposition Forum for Democratic Change - FDC planned a violent protest against President Yoweri Museveni’s giveaway of 7,100 hectares of 300 square kilometers of Mabira Forest in present-day Buikwe District to Mehta Group of Companies for expansion of sugarcane plantation.
The protest by Anywar, alongside then Makindye West Member of Parliament Hussein Kyanjo resulted in the death of three people when the crusaders clashed with law enforcement officers. Consequently, the two MPs were arrested.
Anywar later defected to the National Resistance Movement-NRM party.
Gorreti Namugga, the Mawogola County Member of Parliament in Ssembabule District accused Anywar of sleeping on her job while the country loses forests and wetlands under the watch of her Ministry.