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Finance minister Matia Kasaija has in writing explained to the president why it was impossible to reappoint Martin Anthony Nsubuga for another 5 years as the CEO for Uganda Retirement Benefits Regulatory Authority (URBRA) after his first contract (of May 2019-May 2024) had expired mid last year.
Nsubuga had written to the board of directors seeking the renewal of his CEO contract but the board, on whose recommendation the line minister Kasaija would have to rely to reappoint him, declined after they found him unsuitable.
In his letter to the president, who previously quarreled in cabinet protesting the circumstances under which the board had objected, Kasaija explains how he gave Nsubuga a soft land by not ordering him out outrightly but the man never appreciated that lenience.
He says the board was guided to advertise the CEO job and allow Nsubuga to also apply as opposed to chasing him away out rightly. Kasaija informs the president that Nsubuga got annoyed and didn’t apply ostensibly because he preferred automatic employment contract renewal.
Kasaija adds that Nsubuga became so angry and took to fighting his supervisors in the board and the minister himself in the media on top of dragging them to Judge Musa Sekaana’s court.
The judicial review application, through which Nsubuga unsuccessfully anticipated reinstatement into the CEO job at URBRA, was registered as Misc. Cause No. 78 of 2024.
In his letter Kasaija informs Museveni that he felt hurt as a person to see Nsubuga undertake both media and court wars against him and the board and by extension the entire URBRA, which had been his employer for no less than 10 years since the day Moses Bekabye aided him to relocate from the finance ministry where he wasn’t a very senior person to URBRA where he was made the director in charge of compliance & supervision.
Apparently, Kasaija was also hurt that a female minister from Buganda was used to help Nsubuga to secretly meet the president and make his own case against him as the line minister and board members for not renewing his contract.
The same angry Kasaija has since instructed the Attorney General to appeal against the 31st January 2025 Musa Sekaana judgement which declared some board members as unqualified because of absence of prior training in retirement benefits schemes’ management.
Sources say that the old man Matia Kasaija can’t believe that Martin Anthony Nsubuga, the man he believes he baby-sat and was always very lenient to, would pay him back this way-by dragging him to court which resulted into very embarrassing media publicity.
