Uganda

Prime Minister is individually accountable to the President and collectively responsible for Cabinet decisions.

The revised Constitution published by Uganda’s Lands ministry states the appointment/accountability relation in Article 108A; edition cutoff is not certified.

The revised Ministry-hosted legal text now successfully downloaded and rechecked. Its consolidation cutoff remains unknown.

Use source-attributed legal/institutional wording. No complete amendment-history audit, de facto compliance finding, current incumbent certification or automatic edge promotion.

Applicability checked 17 Sept 2026. This is not the provision’s effective date.

• Revised Constitution of the Republic of Uganda 1995 (opens in a new tab). Article 108A(3), printed page ccxxxix. Document date: 1995. Retrieved 17 Sept 2026.
• Revised Constitution of the Republic of Uganda 1995 (opens in a new tab). Article 108A(1) and (3), PDF page 89, printed ccxxxix. Document date: 1995. Retrieved 17 Sept 2026.

Retain collective responsibility as a separate property.

Evidence location: Article 108A(3), printed page ccxxxix

Dataset: Africa API reviewed official government evidence (opens in a new tab) · Edition reviewed-2026-09-17

Attribution: Africa API review of public government office facts. Original issuing institutions, source URLs and evidence locators accompany each record. Source prose, images and logos retain their original rights; these are not licensed by this factual compilation.

Licence: Factual observations; no blanket source licence asserted

Retrieved 17 Sept 2026. Dataset publication: Date unknown.

• A live official page can be stale; its retrieval date is not an appointment date or independent confirmation of current service.
• Dated events retain their event types. Appointment, effective appointment and swearing-in are not interchangeable.
• Relationships preserve accountability, appointment and reporting distinctions; no universal president-rooted hierarchy is asserted.
• Missing names, exact dates, portraits and identity matches are not invented.

The President appoints the Prime Minister with approval by a simple majority of Parliament.

The revised Constitution published by Uganda’s Lands ministry states the appointment/accountability relation in Article 108A; edition cutoff is not certified.

The revised Ministry-hosted legal text now successfully downloaded and rechecked. Its consolidation cutoff remains unknown.

Use source-attributed legal/institutional wording. No complete amendment-history audit, de facto compliance finding, current incumbent certification or automatic edge promotion.

Applicability checked 17 Sept 2026. This is not the provision’s effective date.

• Revised Constitution of the Republic of Uganda 1995 (opens in a new tab). Article 108A(1). Document date: 1995. Retrieved 17 Sept 2026.
• Revised Constitution of the Republic of Uganda 1995 (opens in a new tab). Article 108A(1) and (3), PDF page 89, printed ccxxxix. Document date: 1995. Retrieved 17 Sept 2026.

Evidence location: Article 108A(1)

Dataset: Africa API reviewed official government evidence (opens in a new tab) · Edition reviewed-2026-09-17

Attribution: Africa API review of public government office facts. Original issuing institutions, source URLs and evidence locators accompany each record. Source prose, images and logos retain their original rights; these are not licensed by this factual compilation.

Licence: Factual observations; no blanket source licence asserted

Retrieved 17 Sept 2026. Dataset publication: Date unknown.

• A live official page can be stale; its retrieval date is not an appointment date or independent confirmation of current service.
• Dated events retain their event types. Appointment, effective appointment and swearing-in are not interchangeable.
• Relationships preserve accountability, appointment and reporting distinctions; no universal president-rooted hierarchy is asserted.
• Missing names, exact dates, portraits and identity matches are not invented.

The Prime Minister coordinates implementation of government policies across those institutions.

Uganda’s PM Office currently describes coordination of ministries, departments and agencies as its mandate; this is coordination, not a blanket reporting line.

Current OPM institutional description corroborates the policy-coordination mandate independently of the constitutional copy.

Use source-attributed legal/institutional wording. No complete amendment-history audit, de facto compliance finding, current incumbent certification or automatic edge promotion.

Applicability checked 17 Sept 2026. This is not the provision’s effective date.

• Revised Constitution of the Republic of Uganda 1995 (opens in a new tab). Article 108A(2)(a). Document date: 1995. Retrieved 17 Sept 2026.
• Revised Constitution of the Republic of Uganda 1995 (opens in a new tab). Article 108A(2)(a), PDF page 89. Document date: 1995. Retrieved 17 Sept 2026.
• Office of the Prime Minister: mandate and Prime Minister message (opens in a new tab). Prime Minister’s Message paragraph describing coordination of ministries, departments and agencies. Document date: Date unknown. Retrieved 17 Sept 2026.

Coordination is not proof of line-management control over every institution.

Evidence location: Article 108A(2)(a)

Dataset: Africa API reviewed official government evidence (opens in a new tab) · Edition reviewed-2026-09-17

Attribution: Africa API review of public government office facts. Original issuing institutions, source URLs and evidence locators accompany each record. Source prose, images and logos retain their original rights; these are not licensed by this factual compilation.

Licence: Factual observations; no blanket source licence asserted

Retrieved 17 Sept 2026. Dataset publication: Date unknown.

• A live official page can be stale; its retrieval date is not an appointment date or independent confirmation of current service.
• Dated events retain their event types. Appointment, effective appointment and swearing-in are not interchangeable.
• Relationships preserve accountability, appointment and reporting distinctions; no universal president-rooted hierarchy is asserted.
• Missing names, exact dates, portraits and identity matches are not invented.