President Yoweri Kaguta Tibuhaburwa Museveni employs a little over 90 cooks in State House. The list of President Museveni’s official cooks also shows what these kitchen staff earn every month.
The records obtained by The Pearl Times indicate that the kitchen staff go by job titles like catering officers, executive chef, pastry chefs, chef and cooks.
Opposition MPs led by Ibrahim Ssemujju Nganda say the list of Museveni’s cooks reveals that there is “too much eating and resting.”
Ssemujju and colleagues argue that “even a bigger hotel such as Sheraton or Serena doesn’t have these numbers” of cooks and chef, and that what is happening is “simply opulence.”
They wondered how many times President Museveni eats in a day to require 90 cooks.
“There is no State House in the world that is as luxurious as ours,” Ssemujju and fellow opposition colleagues further noted.
They also took issue with the foods being budgeted for, which include pilau, karo, kashera, chapatti, and chips, among others. They argued that there is no reason someone should be budgeting for such foods “when there are no nurses in Mulago.”
The list of Museveni’s cooks has an executive cook named Ronald Bamanya; 11 catering officers; 14 chefs; three pastry cooks; and 58 cooks.
President Museveni has previously said he eats simple local foods such as cassava and potatoes. In 2020, Museveni, then aged about 75, shed off about 30kg due to his diet.
But State House has a lot of visitors, foreign and local, who are treated to different meals.
You can see the Foods That Museveni Eats for Breakfast, Lunch and Supper Here.
You can see the list of most highly paid Museveni State House employees earning between Shs30m and Shs10m, as well as the list of most highly paid presidential advisors earning between Shs24m and Shs10m HERE and THERE.
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