How Museveni got sucked into fights for jobs, deals at Uganda Airlines
Sunday May 30 2021
President Museveni (in white)disembarks from one of Uganda Airlines CRJ900 Bombardiers at Entebbe International Airport in 2019. PHOTO/FILE
Summary
Sources say the airlines has been immersed in fights over jobs, money and multimillion procurement deals involving media and publicity services, jet fuel, uniforms and ticket sales
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The Uganda Airlines revival process has been hit by turbulence forced by major fights involving top management and board of the national flag carrier and officials at the Ministry of Works and Transport.
The groups have clashed over jobs, money and multimillion procurement deals involving media and publicity services, jet fuel, uniforms and control of agencies outside Uganda to manage ticket sales for the corporation.
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The East African
Monday May 10 2021
The Uganda Airlines A330-800 neo taking off from Tolouse, France, for Uganda. It arrived in Entebbe on December 22, 2020. PHOTO | FILE | NMG
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Chief executive Cornwell Muleya, finance director Paul Turacayisenga, safety and compliance director Bruno Oringi, human resources director Paul Ssebowa and ground handling manager Harvey Kalama were sent home to pave the way for an investigation into the airline’s operations.
Later, Gen Edward Katumba Wamala, Minister for Works and Transport, said they had been forced to take accumulated leave.
On May 5, the entire board, led by Perez Ahabwe, was also sent packing. Although the letter sacking them was written on April 30, it only got to the board in the first week of May.
Daily Monitor
Wednesday May 05 2021
Summary
It is difficult to clearly understand what caused the suspension of top managers at Uganda Airline, but there has been conflict between management and the board, alleged corruption and influence peddling.
Uganda Airlines, during the 2019/20 financial year, according to the Auditor General, grossed Shs102b in losses, which had sharply risen from Shs15b that had been posted in the 2018/19 financial year.
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A storm has been brewing at Uganda Airlines – albeit silently. Last week, the lid was blown off.
For now, it is difficult to predict how things will end, but what we are sure of is, there is a problem.