He recently secured the appointment of former BBC journalist and long-time friend Alan Kasujja as head of the Uganda Media Centre and pushed for the removal of former Uganda Airlines Executive Director Jenifer Bamuturaki from her post...
At the same time it has also emerged that the current CEO Jenifer Bamuturaki was secretly rehired for the position two years after she had been sacked as commercial director in 2019 after enquiries into over-priced contracts and over-invoicing...
The 50-page report by the Uganda's Public Accounts Committee's sub-committee on Commissions Statutory Authorities and State Enterprises (COSASE) recommended the sacking of the current CEO Jenifer Bamuturaki and the repayment by her and other members of the board of directors of unauthorised expenditure and overpriced contracts...
After COSASE interviewed Uganda Airlines CEO Jenifer Bamuturaki – whose appointment raised eyebrows over her apparent lack of qualifications for the job – in September last year President Yoweri Museveni defended her in a cabinet meeting and accused COSASE of trying to blackmail her...