By KT Reporter
Last March at the burial of veteran educationist Dr. Elizabeth Gabona in Teso, Vice President Jessica Alupo was the chief mourner representing the president.
In her speech, Alupo told the gathering why she had a special liking for Gabona.
She said when she was the minister of education up to 2016, she faced a very hostile permanent secretary called Dr. Rose Nassali Lukwago at the embassy house-based ministry.
She was sturbon and full of hate and would sit on things in order to frustrate Alupo and show staff how she is nothing.
Alupo would call meetings and Nassali refuses to attend. The minister would assign the staff of the ministry to do something and the permanent secretary would tell them not to do it.
In the end, donors got angry to see the projects they were funding stalling yet all the money had been given. The donors got a meeting with the president and complained about the ministry of education becoming dyfunctional.
The president was initially angry at Alupo thinking that she was the problem only to realize later on that the problem was Nassali who would shut up the minister saying she is only answerable to the president.
In the end, Alupo lost her Katakwi woman MP seat in 2016 to Ms Viola Kadome because the Nassali stress had been too much at the ministry.
As she grassed in the village, Alupo kept cursing Nassali who had made her life so miserable in the preceding five years before 2016.
The Gabona burial revealed to mourners and the many civil servants present that Alupo was deeply hurt by Nassali’s mistreatment and she had never moved on.
The VP told mourners how Nassali hated and mistreated some of the civil servants at the ministry including Gabona who was being buried that day.
Many civil servants were hated and suffered persecution the moment the permanent secretary considered them to be Alupo supporters.
Alupo assured mourners that she would always pray for Gabona to rest in perfect peace because she did a lot to shield her against being bullied by Nassali who was a very disrespectful PS.
Currently Nassali works at the judicial service commission as the permanent secretary and many people see it as a demotion by the president who she doesn’t even talk to anymore. Give us feedback on this story through our email: kamwokyatimes@gmail.com
