By Mulengera Reporters
In her Friday appearance before Cosase, Margaret Ejang the former commission secretary at UHRC spoke bitterly about chairperson Mariam Wangadya and her PA Pauline Nansamba accusing them of benefiting a lot from allowances and foreign trips.
She also blamed the duo for the more than 1,500 case backlog now choking UHRC.
She was bitter and called for a forensic audit at the commission whose top members she accused of taking allowances outside the budget and of fighting for trips.
She also blamed them for sleeping on the job resulting complaints backlog.
But there is an interesting background to her bitterness. She is currently jobless because the UHRC top management adhered to the attorney general’s directive by shortening five-year job contract from 5 to one year.
This was done late last year when the attorney general directed that none of the workers at any of the still surviving RAPEX institutions, which are due for scrapping or merging, should have a contract of more than 1 year. The public service ministry PS recently ordered 6 months, stopping the one-year arrangement.
Unfortunately for Ejang, in her case even that one year wouldn’t end because of age whereby she clocked 60 before that one year ended.
She was allowed to stay up to 63 years against the 60-year mark at which she had to retire. She was born in 1963, which means in 2023 she clocked 60 but was tolerated to leave after making 63.
She was so angry with her contract being cut to one year and took government to court but lost the case of judicial review against the attorney general. This didn’t affect her only but others too.
The others who were affected are director finance & admin Christopher Turigye, manager HR Joan Wasswa plus UHRC regional office heads-Bosco Okurut and Josephine Akelo for the Soroti regional office.
Mr. Turigye also left the commission after reaching 60 and the others stayed under one-year contract because they are not yet 60. Turigye didn’t go to war unlike Ejang who has decided to fight instead of accepting to go in peace. (For comments on this story, get back to us on 0705579994 [WhatsApp line], 0779411734 & 041 4674611 or email us at mulengeranews@gmail.com).
