IT IS A WRONG STRATEGY TO DISOLVE NSSF

Dissolving National Social Security Fund (NSSF) will yet be among other mis-advised moves by the NRM Government. What Government ought to do is simple. Have the sector liberalized but leave the NSSF investments intact such that the workers are at liberty to make savings with companies that will be players in the sector, without having to request NSSF to part with the workers' savings it is holding. Instead, Government should stop encroaching on savings by the workers. Uganda lisks moves which may see the economy completely collapse. With what has gone on in the privatization, it is ill advised to think of selling assets of NSSF.
William Kituuka Kiwanuka


NSSF boss Richard Byarugaba

By Vision reporter

THE National Social Security Fund (NSSF) is to dissolve in preparation for the liberalisation of the sector, Sunday Vision has learnt.
As part of the measures, the fund will sell shares held in various companies on the stock market. It has already sold shares previously held in Stanbic Bank.
It will also dispose off most of its assets. Some assets, however, are subject to litigation and are giving the managers a headache.
“The head of the investment department has all information about the assets to be sold,” a source told Sunday Vision. Efforts to get a comment from the department were futile.
Anxiety has gripped NSSF staff following the announcement of a shakeup, as most of them are losing their jobs. Only 67 staff will be retained.
When transformed into a pension scheme, NSSF will pay its savers a monthly pension, but not give them their full savings when they qualify, as has been the case.
This is part of an aggressive shakeup of its operations and investment mix in an effort to prepare for competition as new players move into the market.
Early this year, Parliament enacted a law to create a regulator for the pensions market. It is now in the process of debating another bill that will open up the pensions market to other players.
The Retirement Benefit Authority Act takes precedence over all existing acts relating to establishment, operation, management and regulation of retirement benefit schemes.
The Bill requires and calls for separation of functions, specifically the administration, trustee, custodian and fund manager functions that NSSF currently handles in-house.
Delays in passing the second bill, which will fully liberalise the pension sector, is intended to provide adequate provisions for a smooth transition to prevent confusion and poses risks for the workers’ savings.
“We could not pass that Bill which is about liberalisation of the pension sector before a regulator is in place,” Aston Kajara, the privatisation state minister told Sunday Vision before advising this newspaper to contact Maria Kiwanuka, who is the new finance minister.
However, attempts to get a comment from her were futile as her office telephone was picked by her aide who promised to call back, but did not.
Sources said the Government had decided to expedite the transition and the second Bill would soon be tabled before Parliament.
Previous efforts to open up the sector were hindered by lack of funds.
Now, the World Bank has agreed to extend $50m (sh130b) loan to “help build a more efficient, robust and deeper financial sector, which can support broad-based private sector growth”.
The first pillar will concentrate on supporting the development of a market for pension system reform, specifically supporting the emergence of a regulated, competitive and sustainable pension industry catering for both mandatory and voluntary pension savings.
NSSF properties include Workers’ House, Social Security House, Pension Towers, Nsimbe Estate and plots of land in Temangalo, Lubowa, Mbuya and Naguru, among others.
However, Workers’ House, Nsimbe and Lubowa estates are involved in cases of litigation, which is currently disturbing the fund managers.
In December, the fund sold 40 million Stanbic Bank shares at sh11b, making it the largest single trade since the Uganda Securities Exchange opened about 12 years ago.
Efforts to reach Richard Byarugaba, the fund’s chief executive officer, were futile as he was reportedly out of the country. Olive Lumonya, the NSSF branding and marketing manager, said investment decisions were made by the firm’s head of investments.
In April, Byarugaba said the fund was readying itself for completion. “A lot of our internal systems are being readjusted. We are improving service delivery channels with a view of becoming more efficient,” he said.
“We are also undergoing a restructuring process that will make us leaner but more efficient.
There have been many calls to liberalise and reform the pension sector, especially on account of the numerous financial scandals which have dogged the fund over the years.
Under the law, all workers are required to save with NSSF.
The Fund takes 5% of the salary, while the employer tops it with 10%. However, the workers can only get their benefits after clocking 55 years.
Workers have always complained that they can’t use their savings as security for loans and NSSF pays interest below the inflation rate.
In the proposed changes, retiring workers will get 30% of their savings and continue getting a monthly pension for the rest of their life.

Published on: Saturday, 23rd July, 2011

THE MAYOR'S OFFICIAL RESIDENCE IS ONE OF THE INSTRUMENTS OF AUTHORITY OF HIS OFFICE

Time is ripe for Ugandans who have been in school not to take us back to the time when the country was led by illiterates. It disturbs to keep hearing from the likes of Sebagala telling us that 'his' council resolved to give the Mayor's House to the Security operatives, that the house was in a bad shape and the council did not have money to renovate it. Such reasoning is silly.
The Monitor news paper of June 19, 2008 quoted Kampala Mayor Nasser Ntege Sebaggala saying," he was willing to offer his official multi-billion Kololo residence to the coordinator of the intelligence services, Gen. David Tinyefuza. During an interview with Daily Monitor, Hajji Sebaggala said KCC could not frustrate a government security programme that would benefit all city dwellers."
We should have people in office who are worth not a shame. The Mayor is apolitical head of Kampala City. How on earth do you tell people who went to school that council did not have money hence decided to let the security operatives have it! The Mayor is a city like Kampala must have his residence in place and well catered for. Those who made the arrangement to have an official residence of the Mayor knew what they were doing. The security people can find another place after-all there are so many rent-able premises in the city.
William Kituuka Kiwanuka

Kampala Capital City Authority (KCCA) Executive Director Jennifer Musisi has vowed to evict intelligence services coordinator Gen David Tinyefuza from the mult-billion house belonging to the authority in Kampala.
authority in Kampala.
Kampala Capital City Authority (KCCA) Executive Director Jennifer Musisi has vowed to evict intelligence services coordinator Gen David Tinyefuza from the mult-billion house belonging to the authority in Kampala.
The house was controversially given to Gen Tinyefuza in March 2008 after a directive from the then Local Government Minister Kahinda Otafiire, who sighted ‘security reasons’ as the cause for the take over.
But while appearing on KfM’s Hot Seat programme at the weekend, Ms Musisi said the house is a property of KCCA and she would have it handed back.
Ms Musisi could not be reached for comment yesterday but a senior KCCA official who did not want to be quoted because of the sensitivity of the matter, said the authority was in the final stages of “serving the general with a vacation notice”.
“We shall tell him to vacate the house because it is council property. All property belonging to the authority well be re-posessed,” the official said.
Before it was taken over by the intelligence chief, the house used to be occupied by the council health chief inspector.
The two storey building located at Plot 2, Mabua Road, in Kololo, serves as office premises and a command centre from where the UPDF General coordinates his intelligence work.
Gen Tinyefuza could not be reached for a comment by press time. When she was appointed the KCCA boss, Ms Musisi vowed to right the wrongs that have been going on in the management of Kampala city and promised never to have double standards in her efforts to put the city back on track. But Ms Musisi’s move will not be the first time that the city council tries to evict the UPDF strongman.
In 2009, Kampala City Council resolved that Gen Tinyefuza, was illegally occupying the house and then town clerk Ruth Kijjambu, told councillors that the security boss occupied the premises before council’s approval. She had promised to petition the current Local Government Minister, Mr Adolf Mwesige, over the issue. But two years down the road, the General is still occupying the premises.
If Ms Musisi’s plan succeeds, Gen Tinyefuza will become the second most influential person in government to be evicted from the KCCA’s property after former Kampala mayor Nasser Ntege Sebaggala.
Mr Sebaggala was forcefully evicted from a palatial Kololo house and had his property thrown out in the rain by KCCA’s bailiffs after ignoring numerous requests from the Lord Mayor, Elias Lukwago, and Ms Musisi to vacate the house, which he had dubiously acquired during his tenure as the city mayor.
Ms Sebaggala claimed that he obtained the house through a council resolution and he even had the President’s blessings. But efforts to get a comment from Gen Tinyefuza on whether the security reasons that necessitated the house takeover still exist, and how he is going to respond to KCCA, were futile as his phone went unanswered.
However, the house, which by the time of Tinyefuza’s takeover was valued at Shs5b, currently appears run down with its paint peeling off. There are unverified claims that the place is used as a heavy duty interrogation centre.
By Isaac Imaka, Daily Monitor


SEBAGALA DEFENDS TINYEFUNZA'S STAY IN KCCA HOUSE
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The former mayor of Kampala, Alhajji Nasser Ntege Ssebagala has defended the occupation of General David Tinyefuza in one of the properties of Kampala Capital City Authority house.
The coordinator of intelligence services General David Tinyefuza has been in the news over his occupation of the house, located on Plot2, Mabua road in Kololo. He has threatened to arrest anyone trying to evict him
Ssebagala says Tinyefuza was given the house by KCC for coordination of security activities.
Former mayor Ssebagala says KCC passed a resolution to give him the house in 2008 following a request by then local government minister General Kahinda Otafire.
Ssebagala says the house was unoccupied at the time and in a very poor condition, close to being inhabitable.
He says KCC decided to pass on the house because it needed costly repairs at the time.
The KCC Speaker at the time Shifra Lukwago also confirms the council resolution giving up the house.
The KCCA Executive Director Jeniffer Musisi however says the administration has the right to overturn any contracts wrongfully signed in the past.
She says it does not matter whether or not contracts exist, adding that they can be cancelled if it's established that they are not in the best interest of the authority.

TINYEFUZA MUST GO, SAYS JENNIFER MUSISI
Saturday, 23rd July, 2011
By Taddeo Bwambale

EXECUTIVE Director Jennifer Musisi insists that Gen. David Tinyefuza, the coordinator of intelligence services, must leave the house belonging to the Kampala Capital City Authority (KCCA).
She has also warned the General against threatening her, saying she was executing her duties as a government official.
In a letter, Musisi urged Tinyefuza to stop “issuing personal threats to the Accounting Officer of a government entity.”
Musisi also challenged Tinyefuza to produce documents proving that he or the Government was occupying the house legally.
“I would therefore reiterate our request that any official communication from KCC regarding Government/Uganda People’s Defence Forces occupation of the property be availed to us to enable us to account for the property,” the letter reads.
Later in the afternoon, while speaking to journalists in Kampala, Musisi vowed to continue executing her duties even if it meant stepping on some people’s toes.
“That property belongs to the Government and the people of Uganda. As the accounting officer, it is my role to account for all property belonging to KCCA,” she said.
“KCCA is in the process of recovering a lot of other properties and it is my role to find out the legal position of that house,” Musisi added.
On July 19, Musisi wrote to Tinyefuza and asked him to vacate the two-storeyed house by August 2 or be evicted. She also asked him to provide a formal instrument mandating his occupation of the property and to explain within two days how he or the army occupied the house.
She said the property was registered in the name of the predecessor of KCCA and that the interest in the house had been transferred to KCCA.
However, Tinyefuza wrote back, describing Musisi’s letter as “offensive and irresponsible”. He said the house was being used to coordinate intelligence and security.
He also argued that he was neither residing in the house nor using it for personal business.
“You are free to come and evict whoever you want. I wish you luck,” Tinyefuza wrote.
Appearing on a radio talkshow, Tinyefuza threatened to arrest Musisi if she dared evict him.
However, Musisi dismissed Tinyefuza’s threats of arrest and described his letter as unfortunate. “But we think the matter will be resolved soon,” she said.
She explained that she had faced a lot of resistance in her work to streamline operations in the city since she took office, but vowed not to relent.
“This city has had many problems. There are many wrong buttons, but we’ll just keep pressing them. If you are afraid of stepping on people’s toes, nothing will be done,” she said.
She had just inspected the multi-million Naguru General Hospital, which is under construction.
The mansion under contention is located at Plot 2, Mabua Road in Kololo, an upscale Kampala suburb. It was previously the official residence of the city mayor. It is now tightly-guarded and serves as Tinyefuza’s office and intelligence coordination centre.
The building was registered in the names of Kampala Municipal Council in 1959, for a term of 99 years, begining January 1949, Musisi said. She said KCCA had no record of any allocation or sale of the house to the army or Tinyefuza.
In the letter, Musisi also pointed out an irregular attempt to sell the house to a private company, Pearline Investments between July 2010 and April 2011.
Kampala City Council gave the house to Tinyefuza in March 2008, on the orders of then local government minister Kahinda Otafire. Former mayor Nasser Sebagala handed over the house to Tinyefuza amid protests from councillors.
Musisi dismissed reports that the house had been sold to a city tycoon and said the Authority had the land title. “As I know, there are neither encumbrances nor transfers on it.”

THE TEACHERS WHO TAUGHT IN THE PAST WERE REWARDED

Even if the Government of Uganda ever realized the 30% salary demand made by the teachers, the truth is that they will remain operating in the shadows of the teachers who served the country in the 60's up to the mid-seventies. It is unfortunate that the NRM Government has upset the whole system such that people who previously were highly regarded by Government before NRM are currently eating grass, hence the continued brain drain. It is not likely that NRM will ever manage to reverse the bad climate it has created for most professionals, they simply have no morale given the pay which get more meaningless by the day, as people whose source of money is unclear but are booming and buying land. It is sad.
William Kituuka Kiwanuka

TEACHERS DEMAND 30% SALARY INCREASE
By Mercy Nalugo (email the author)

Posted Wednesday, July 20 2011 at 18:17
Teachers in the country from both primary and secondary schools are expected in Parliament on Thursday morning to present their petition demanding that the government increases their salaries by at least 30 per cent.
The teachers under the Uganda National Teachers Union (UNATO) will present their petition in the Parliamentary Social Services committee. The committee chairperson, Mr Sam Lyomoki announced on Wednesday that they shall listen to the petitioners’ concerns and put them before the sector ministers during the on-going review of the sector’s policy statements.
The Social Services committee is charged with scrutinizing the budget for the ministry of education but the salary increment for the teachers does not feature anywhere in the policy statements.
In their petition that is before the Social Services committee, the teachers are expected to note that their meagre salaries cannot enable them to cope with the ever increasing standard of living.
“All we need is the 30 percent increment for teachers across the board so that we come up with the most practical strategy,” reads the petition in part signed by the UNATU General Secretary,Ms Teopista Birungi.
A primary teacher on government pay-roll earns Shs 200,000 a month while those in private schools are usually paid as low as Shs 60,000 a month.
With the 30percent increment, a primary school teacher would earn an extra Shs 60,000.
During the last financial year budget, government announced a 30percent increment for those teachers in hard-to reach regions.
Teachers have however threatened to strike if their salaries are not increased.
The Ministry of Education Under Secretary, Mr Aggrey Kibenge recently said that the teachers demand however cannot be met this financial year as there is no increment in the budget.
Last year government gave teachers a 30 per cent pay rise which was subjected to taxes.
The teachers have overtime complained about the poor pay and stressed the need to have their salaries increased to enable them meet their needs given the increasing standard of living.
The teachers complained in the petition that despite the worsening economic condition in the country, their Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA) has not been operationalised to date which is the basis for improving on their welfare.

TAMALE MIRUNDI REASONS CHILDISHLY

Tamale Mirundi is one of those people who know very well that as long as President Museveni wants something done and it requires money, no body will stop him as long as he remains head of State. He is the type who gossips cheaply and tries to show those who listen to him that he masters his stuff, but his credibility is long gone. Like many Ugandans who are in to earn a living which ever course the country takes, his problem is well understood. So, to me his reasoning like in this case is simply childish.
William Kituuka Kiwanuka

BLAME 'LARGE' PRESIDENTIAL BUDGET ON MPs, SAYS TAMALE MIRUNDI
By Yasiin Mugerwa

Posted Friday, July 22 2011 at 00:00

Ugandan Lawmakers and civil society organisations on Thursday kept the spotlight on the Shs150 billion Presidency budget, berating what they described as an “untamed appetite” and questionable use of taxpayers’ money by the highest office in the land.
But even as critics lamented the failure to slash “wasteful expenditure” at a time when the country’s economy is taking a beating from double digit inflation and unprecedented volatility in the foreign exchange market, Presidential Spokesperson Tamale Mirundi, chose to advise MPs to block the budget if they so wished.

President not king
“The President doesn’t have a key to State coffers. If there is extravagance, the MPs should be the ones to blame,” Mr Tamale said. “They should tell us why they keep approving this money. And before they accuse the President of being insensitive to the needs of the people, let them come to Parliament on bicycles and cut their salaries.”
Mr Mirundi justified the expenditure proposals, saying unlike a king who rarely ventures out of his palace, the President has an obligation to visit the people who voted for him.
“He must see what is going on, that is why under the Constitution he is obliged to take over the administration of a district if things are not going well,” Mr Mirundi said.
Other officials at State House asked the media and lawmakers to understand that the Shs150 billion Presidency budget is not restricted to merely catering for the personal welfare of the President, the Vice President and their immediate families.
Calculations done by this newspaper show that by spending more than Shs14.8 billion on travel in-land, the Presidency will, on average, be shelling out over Shs41 million per day on this budget item alone.
“This budget is a clear indication that the President has lost touch with the reality. Elsewhere, presidents are proposing austerity measures to cut on wastage but our President is doing the reverse,” Mr Geoffrey Ekanya, the shadow Finance Minister said.
“With such State House spending, it’s evident that doctors will continue to flee the country, teachers and nurses will continue getting Shs200,000 per month, the country will continue to have only four neurosurgeons, and women will continue to die in labour.”
Closer examination of the presidency budget reveals that Shs6.3 billion has been pegged to classified expenditure. This brings the total amount of money to be spent without the possibility of adequate parliamentary oversight to Shs12.4 billion when the Shs6.1 billion proposed for presidential donations is included.
Such expenditure would not be possible if Parliament was allowed to exercise its role of providing checks and balances, according to Executive Director at the Anti-Corruption Coalition of Uganda, Ms Cissy Kagaba.

Civil society call
“There is no way such money can be approved,” Ms Kagaba said, pointing out that hiding money under the Presidency “means corruption and lack of accountability.”
“State House has become a liability to the country,” Ms Kagaba said. “We would like to see MPs cutting State House and Office of the President’s budget and ensuring that there is accountability.”
Ms Kagaba observed that “this extravagance must stop to ensure that money goes to productive areas like agriculture whose budget was cut. We also want to see value for money and accountability must start with the Presidency.”
Putting President Museveni’s proposed budget for travel around the country in context, the Shs12.4 billion in question would treat more than 1.24 million cases of malaria sickness -- the biggest killer disease in Uganda, which claims 320 lives everyday. On the open market, a course of coartem malaria medication goes for Shs10,000.

Patriotism question
A former shadow minister for finance also raised questions about the Shs7.5 billion allocated to patriotism clubs and the Patriotism Secretariat, totaling.
Mr Oduman Okello said the project has never taken off in the proposed 5,000 secondary schools, and accountability for money (about Shs3 billion) previously taken to promote patriotism remains unknown.
“Anything to do with schools is a responsibility of Ministry of Education and not the Presidency. [This] the reason we are paying for air. Why does the President insist that he is a better educator than educationists in Ministry of Education?” Mr Okello asked.

More health centres?
In Mr Okello’s estimation, if the Shs7.5 billion was spent on building Health Centre IIs, at an average cost of Shs45million per facility, the country can easily have 166 new health centres at parish level.
“The ordinary citizens … who can barely afford a meal are taxed to the marrow, and any suggestions for relief in form of relaxation of taxes on fuel, they say government will lose revenue. But revenue for what? The answer is simple; revenue to ensure maximum comfort for the President.”
Additional queries surround the Shs8.6 billion for buying medals and Shs6.1 billion for donations. Leader of the Opposition in Parliament, Mr Nandala Mafabi criticised the figures as an insult to the poor Ugandans who have nothing to eat.
“The President’s donations have never been audited yet 300,000 Ugandans in need of ARVs cannot access them. As a country we cannot pretend that this budget is pro-people,” he said.
Current public health policy is that, due to resource constraints, all new HIV/Aids patients deserving of antiretroviral treatment are placed on a waiting list. A slot opens when a patient dies; highlighting an emerging crisis even as Health ministry officials claim there is no scarcity of ARVs.

And ARVs
There are about 500,000 HIV-infected individuals in need of treatment, but only 200,000 are getting it, while latest statistics show that additional 110,000 new infections are recorded every year.
At a cost of around $1,500 (Shs375,000) needed to treat a per person living with the HIV/Aids annually, the money for donations and medals budgeted under the Presidency Budget could be used to treat about 4,000 Ugandans every year.

SOMALIA'S CHILDREN'S FAMINE HAS BEEN IGNORED

The UN has officially declared that famine exists in Somalia. Photograph: Oli Scarff/Getty Images
This famine hasn't happened overnight, but it has been reduced to a footnote in the media's eyes by more sensational events
The problem when a child is dying from starvation is that they can't wait. They can't put their hunger on pause until the glare of the media decides to turn its spotlight on them and help spread the word that children are dying. Instead, they will slowly starve to death.
This is exactly what is happening to nearly 2 million children in Somalia right now. Nearly half of these children are already on the critical list, inching further away from life as every hour slips by. By the time you read this, it may already be too late for some.
In today's newspapers – from front to back – I was hoping to see the media use their power and influence to tell this story. I hoped to see headlines shouting that millions of women and children in Somalia, and across the entire Horn of Africa, are struggling for survival and need the British public to help.
But I didn't. Instead, my eyes were blurred with articles of shaving foam and hacking scandals, as talk about the dire need for nutritional supplies for children who need their lives saved slipped into the footnotes.
And now, the situation has reached crisis point. This morning the UN officially declared that famine exists in Somalia and that the lives of nearly half of the Somali population – 3.7 million people – are now in crisis.
At Unicef, which is the UN's children's agency, they don't use the word famine lightly. They are guided by strict criteria that means it can only be declared when at least three of eight prerequisites are reached. These are acute malnutrition rates among children must exceed 30%; more than two people per 10,000 die daily; and food access falls far below 2,100 kilocalories of food every day.
In those most severely affected regions of Somalia – Bakool and Lower Shabelle – acute malnutrition due to poor diets or inadequate food is now exceeding 50% and Unicef is recording at least six per 10,000 children dying daily. When one does the maths, this could translate into more than 12 children dying every hour should the situation worsen. Three other regions in the south will have a famine in next one to two months they warn.
I've been to Ethiopia with Unicef last year into some of the same regions that are today the focus of the wider Horn of Africa appeal. The famine, the first in 20 years, is due to a number of factors such as poverty, inadequate rainfall and conflict.
This famine didn't happen suddenly. It has been slowly evolving but under reported. Unicef, along with the UN, has been warning since January of a pending crisis and statements have been issued. 2011 has been a year filled with natural disasters and social upheaval in north Africa that have all been competing for news attention. Since drought is a slow-onset disaster, it is often very difficult to get the type of attention and response that is needed to raise the funds to prevent that disaster. In addition, issues of access and conflict have made the situation even more complicated.
The media also have a major role in the response to disasters. As former BBC producer Suzanne Franks pointedly wrote in the British Journalism Review: "Disasters – natural or man-made – exist only when they are covered by the media. Plenty of terrible things happen that remain unreported. Most disasters are known about only by those directly affected. And the crises that do get media attention are not necessarily those that kill or harm the most victims."
Being a child in Somalia is already tough and dangerous. If you survive to one, you may not survive beyond five; if you live beyond five, you most probably won't go to school and you most probably won't have many choices other than being recruited into an armed faction.
Now with the famine, life is even worse. That is why Unicef – which has been working in Somalia since 1972 – rightly calls this a "children's famine".

TIME TO DO THINGS RIGHT: TINYE SHOULD GET ANOTHER HOUSE

The house whose ownership battle has pitted the KCCA boss against the spy chief. PHOTO BY JOSEPH KIGGUNDU - The official residence of Kampala City Mayor
The Lord Mayor for Kampala city deserves an executive residence. These excuses are not tenable. To see security a reality does not limit Tinyenfunza to the Official residence of the political head of Kampala city. The civilized thing to do is to get or rent another premise.
William Kituuka Kiwanuka

I'LL ARREST MUSISI, WARNS GEN. TINYEFU
By Robert Mwanje & Mercy Nalugo

Posted Friday, July 22 2011 at 00:00
The Coordinator of Intelligence Services, Gen. David Tinyefuza, yesterday threatened to arrest the Kampala Capital City Authority executive director if she attempts to evict him from the official mayoral residence.
Featuring on a local radio station, Gen. Tinyefuza said the controversial house was serving the State’s security interests and not his personal comfort.
“I will arrest that woman; I’m not occupying that house as an individual. It is used to serve interests of national security,” Gen. Tinyefuza said in Kampala yesterday.
The remarks come days after Ms Jennifer Kiwanuka Musisi issued a July 19 letter serving a 14-day ultimatum on the General to vacate the premises.
The house located on Plot 2 Mabua Road in plush Kololo is the official city mayor’s residence but was controversially occupied by Gen. Tinyefuza in March 2008 upon a directive of then local government minister, Maj. Gen. (rtd) Kahinda Otafiire.
But KCCA authorities have scoffed at General Tinyefuza’s utterances, saying their attention is focused on rescuing the Authority’s properties and nothing else.
The executive director’s personal assistant, Mr Patrick Mugenyi, said: “We can’t react to that but we can confirm that we are underway to recover KCCA property.”

Lukwago’s position
Kampala Lord Mayor Erias Lukwago echoed Ms Musisi’s position, saying KCCA has the mandate to reclaim its property since it was occupied irregularly.
“Tinyefuza should desist from issuing threats. That house is KCCA property and there is no agreement between him and the authority,” Mr Lukwago said yesterday afternoon.
A day after Ms Musisi wrote notifying him that he must have vacated the premises by August 2, Gen. Tinyefuza replied. He indicated that the property is currently the centre of intelligence and security services.
“For the sake of emphasis, I wish to stress that I do not reside or use this property for personal work. It serves government in its effort to maintain peace and security in the country,” Gen. Tinyefuza’s letter read in part.
“I therefore find your letter (July 19 letter) offensive and irresponsible. You are free to come and evict whoever you want and I wish you luck.”

House taken?
The house, which by the time of Tinyefuza’s takeover was valued at Shs5 billion, currently appears run-down. There are unverified claims that the place has been quietly sold off to an unknown real estate developer for about Shs800 million.

KAPACHORWA, SIRONKO, BUKWA, KWEEN, BULAMBULI, MBALE AND BUDUDA BENEFICIARIES OF EURO 299,522 EUROPEAID

European Instrument for Democracy & Human Rights (EIDHR)
CALL FOR PROPOSALS
Reference No: EuropeAid/131-525/L/ACT/UG
“Promoting Human Rights and Supporting the Peaceful conciliation of Group Interests.”
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