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In his letter trying to explain to the president why URBRA ex-CEO Martin Anthony Nsubuga’s employment contract couldn’t be renewed automatically on 14th May 2024 when his five year tenure (which began on 14th May 2019) expired, finance minister Matia Kasaija has portrayed Mr. Nsubuga as a very extravagant Chief Executive Officer not so good to be retained.
Responding to the cabinet meeting of 28th October 2024 at Entebbe state house where Museveni criticized the Hon Julius Bigirwa Junjula-led board for declining to renew Nsubuga’s job contract for another 5 years, Kasaija put everything out in black & white.
During that cabinet meeting Museveni, who earlier on had met Nsubuga through a female minister from Buganda, bashed the board members and warned against making defeated former MPs board members again, going forward.
Matia Kasaija, who realized the president had been lied to by some Nsubuga supporters, was in the meeting and felt so bad though he never immediately responded.
Upon recomposing himself, Kasaija who supervises the URBRA board determined to explain himself to the president via a letter of personal explanation which he used to give very clear reasons why Nsubuga had become too dangerous to be retained in the job.
Kasaija felt that it wouldn’t have been Nsubuga who he treated so leniently and always shielded, to pay him back in that way.
In his letter, Kasaija listed more than 10 reasons to demonstrate what made Nsubuga ineligible including irregular staff recruitments, sectarianism and procurement decisions of especially stationery for the organization. The other questionable procurement decisions related to maintenance and repair of the Authority vehicles especially those attached to the CEO’s office among others.
Kasaija also makes reference to fuel expenses which the ex-CEO allegedly sanctioned to favor himself while by far exceeding what had been allocated and authorized in the Authority budget as was approved by the board.
In his letter, the minister reports to the president that in just the financial year 2022/2023, the ex-CEO blew up Ugx198,105,000/= (almost 200m) on fuel purchases to maintain a fleet of three official Land Cruiser vehicles that were attached to his office at a time other fellow members of top executive barely had any means of transport.
Kasaija makes it clear to the president that there is a lot more that can be elaborated to him regarding Martin Anthony Nsubuga’s unsuitability for the URBRA CEO job-and asks for exclusive audience to do exactly that.
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