All isn’t well at Uganda Investment Authority (UIA) whose 11 Director positions have all been vacant following the government decision to restructure the organization and its personnel deployment. The restructuring saw all the Directors fired and the Board advertised their jobs. When the advert went out, the former Directors applied and strangely in most cases they didn’t face competition. The Board members did their thing in such a way that one person was shortlisted per position and it turned out these are the very guys that had previously been chased from the jobs. We have established from sources at the office of the IGG Irene Mulyagonja who is investigating the recruitment process, that on 26th April 2018, the UIA governing board members sat and shortlisted one candidate for each position and the shortlisted candidates on 30th April which was a Monday converged at UIA for oral interviews. And because they were each unopposed, they got the respective jobs they had applied for.
THE WINNERS;
The winning candidates, whose return at UIA is seen as defeating the restructuring’s original objective, include Richard Tebandeke who is bouncing back as Director Finance & Administration and Joseph Kiggundu who is bouncing back as Director One stop center. Others are Chief Internal Auditor Christopher Nankoola, Director Investment Promotions & Development Martin Muhangi, Director Industrial Parks Hamza Galiwango, Director SME, Science, Technology & Innovations Basil Ajer, Sheila Karungi Mugyenzi and Barbra N Kabuchu. For the deputy director positions, the guys fighting to reach the finishing line include: Samalie Mukyala and Barbra Natukunda. For positions like Deputy Director HR & Administration, Research & Planning and Business Development, there were no applicants that were shortlisted and the high-earning UIA board intends to advertise again. The IGG investigators are more intrigued by the fact that Hamza Galiwango, who is among those being brought back, was first interdicted after being implicated by police investigations in criminal activities in Namanve and other industrial parks. Sources close to the IGG investigations disclosed that the decision whether to readmit old Directors or not has sharply divided members of the UIA Board whereby some are okay with it and others are sharply opposed. Watch this space! For comments, call/text/whatsapp us on 0703164755.
