By Mulengera Reporters
Gen Katumba Wamala, who is the senior Minister of Works and Transport, has asked UNRA employees and stakeholders unable to tolerate Allen Kagina’s reappointment as Executive Director to consider getting jobs elsewhere.
Speaking at UNRA Nakawa-based headquarters on Wednesday, Gen Katumba Wamala revealed that he had already signed the instrument extending Kagina’s contract for another five years meaning she will lead the entity up to May 2025. Kagina’s reappointment follows the governing Board report in which she was rated to have scored 97% in the first time. The same report urged Katumba to reappoint her.
On becoming privy to the Board report, whose contents Daily Monitor elaborately reported on Wednesday, President Museveni signalled Gen Katumba to sign the necessary instrument formalizing Kagina’s new contract. Gen Wamala used the Wednesday meeting with staff at UNRA in Nakawa to announce he had already done the necessary signing flagging off Kagina for another five years.
The Wednesday meeting was meant to enable the three new Ministers at Portbell Road-based Ministry to acquaint themselves with the staff and what goes on at UNRA. Gen Katumba came with Peter Lokeris who in the last December reshuffle replaced him as State Minister for Works.
Joy Kabatsi (State for Transport) was also supposed to be part of the Katumba entourage but for unknown reasons wasn’t part of the meeting at Nakawa. However, she had attended the other earlier two orientation meetings new Minister Katumba had with UCAA and SGR top management teams.
Katumba’s call on disgruntled staffers to quit in case they consider her unacceptable was prompted by reports that some employees and bidders were working day and night to ensure her contract doesn’t get renewed.
Such disgruntled actors had gone as far as lobbying influential MPs sitting on both PAC and COSASE to summon and question Kagina on mismatch of financial resources which they claimed had been committed in the preceding Financial Years.