By Mulengera Reporters
After being controversially accused of financial impropriety, Sylivia Muhebwa Ntambi was (in March 2021) dramatically thrown out of Equal Opportunities Commission where she was serving as Chairperson. She was subsequently slapped with charges in the Anti-Corruption Division of the High Court, relating to causing a financial loss of Shs200m.
Since that time, she went through a lot and was subjected to a lot demonization in especially the online media. However, the passage of time has caused many powerful decision makers in Uganda to reflect on what happened and it’s beginning to emerge that Ntambi wasn’t the monster the media portrayed.
Gen Salim Saleh, who is so powerful to the extent that analysts like MP Semujju Nganda sarcastically refer to him as Gen Museveni’s Co-President, has taken lead in insisting that Ntambi deserves to be given a second chance. Leveraging her intellectual capabilities and pedigree, Gen Saleh has privately been facilitating and giving her clandestine assignments to do.
One of the big assignments she was given and has spent months working on relates to the compilation of a document Gen Saleh wants to be titled WOW-Who Owns What in Uganda.
A lot of the focus is on the land resources of Uganda and Gen Saleh felt it was necessary to have this documented and become part of Uganda’s official national record after opposition leaders like Semujju Nganda and Presidential Candidate Robert Kyagulanyi made controversial statements and branded him a land grabber.
This greatly hurt the man who feels he has sacrificed a lot for Uganda since when he was a teenager in the early 1970s. At some point, Saleh even protested publicly and wondered why all the government officials and NRM politicians, including Ministers and MPs, opted to keep quiet instead of defending him on public media against the wild accusations Semujju Nganda and Kyagulanyi made against him.
He vowed to spearhead a project to establish and document the truth regarding who Uganda’s biggest land owners are. And sources from the Kirema Heritage Farm in Nakaseke, where the General currently is based having relocated from his Gulu base, say that Saleh is pleased that Ntambi, to whom the project to profile Uganda’s biggest land owners was assigned, hasn’t disappointed.
With Saleh’s recommendation letter introducing her as his agent and the facilitation, the workaholic Ntambi has been able to get in touch with all the relevant officers of government from whom a lot of private land-ownership details have been obtained. Ntambi has already compiled a lot and every month she travels to Kirema and gets audience with Gen Salim Saleh, her principal, to update him on the progress and get guidance on how to expeditiously accomplish the remainder of the work.
Sources say that already a huge volume has been compiled and its contents quality-assured and agreed upon with Gen Saleh and this is already comprising what has aptly been named volume one of WOW.
Sources add that the General has realized the gem that Ntambi is when it comes to expeditiously doing quality work and has already suggested to the President that she gets vetted to be on the list of highly qualified Ugandans the big man from Rwakitura will be giving big government positions as he gets down to construct his post-May 2026 government after trouncing Robert Kyagulanyi during the 15th January May elections. (For comments on this story, get back to us on 0705579994 [WhatsApp line], 0779411734 & 041 4674611 or email us at mulengeranews@gmail.com).
