By KT Reporter
Online media reports have emerged showing that president Museveni doesn’t want Martin Nsubuga to call himself the chief executive officer for Uganda retirement benefits regulatody authority URBRA anymore.
The news reports show that on the Tuesday of April 1st Museveni called a crisis meetings of Matia Kasaija, Ramathan Goobi, attorney general Kiwanuka Kiryowa, lawyer Moses Kaggwa and all board members to discuss the paralysis at URBRA.
During the meeting board members led by their chairman Julius Jjunjura constituted themselves into a body of whistle blowers who presented documents showing financial mismanagement at URBRA under Nsubuga.
His contract as CEO ended on April 14th 2024 and Jjunjula told Museveni this is part of the reason why they didn’t renew it. Museveni was shocked to see how so much rot had occured at URBRA and asked Goobi and Kasaija why they were such poor supervisors.
They told Museveni they had deployed Moses Bekabye to sit on the board and supervise URBRA on their behalf since they are very busy. Bekabye defended Nsubuga by saying he was being fought by the board because he refused to give them 100m. Bekabye was asked for evidence of this and he didn’t have any.
Online news reports show that Museveni rejected claims that Nsubuga was a clean man because all auditor general’s reports had not found any rot at URBRA.
News reports show that Museveni told the meeting he doesn’t believe in auditor general’s reports anymore because MDAs always pay to be white-washed by external auditors.
Museveni said he knows about corruption of the kawukumi at auditor general’s office.
He made it clear that as far as he is concerned, being cleared by the auditor general doesn’t make Nsubuga clean at all.
Museveni said he these days trusts internal audit reports more because they carry more truth than external audit reports which are paid for.
So he agreed with the board members and whistle blowers that Nsubuga has a lot to explain himself for regarding the internal audit rsports showing financial mismanagement on fuel and other things.
Media reports also show that Museveni asked Kiryowa to assure Nsubuga that he can’t continue calling himself the MD URBRA when his contract ended on April 14th 2024. Kiryowa and Museveni explained that there is no way a court can change the fact that Nsubuga’s contract had expired and wasn’t there anymore.
Museveni said he is a lay man but read and understood judge Musa Ssekaana’s ruling because it was written in simple english. Museveni told Nsubuga there is nowhere the judge directed government to renew his contract because that’s the role of the executive and not the judiciary.
Museveni advised Nsubuga to chase for the costs that were awarded to him and forget about the rest. Museveni also admitted that the judge ordered the removal of some board members who didn’t come in properly.
The president said he was going to order the public service commission to verify the financial mismanagement claims in the audit reports and advise him if its still possible for Nsubuga, who some want to be prosecuted, to be employed anywhere in the government job.
Museveni reportedly also wondered why Nsubuga was still coming to URBRA everyday to occupy office yet he isn’t the MD anymore. News reports show that Museveni also asked Kiryowa to write a legal opinion advising if its possible to reappoint the board members.
The president also asked the public service commission to work with Jjunjula as a whistle blower to look into all the dirt on financial management at URBRA. Give us feedback on this story through our email: kamwokyatimes@gmail.com
