Ex-KCCA boss, Jennifer Musisi
By Our Reporters
In 2018, the Executive Director of the Kampala Capital City Authority (KCCA) at the time shocked the nation when she resigned her job.
She went on to take on her current job as City Leader in Residence at Bloomberg Harvard City Leadership Initiative.
But well-placed sources say that President Yoweri Museveni, being the appointing authority, was bothered by the resignation.
Sources add that the development led the President to summon his security chiefs, especially those in intelligence, to understand what it was they were doing, to the point that Musisi was able to get in and out of the country to do job interviews until she got one, resigned, and left the country without them (security chiefs) getting wind of it.
Musisi reportedly dropped her resignation at State House in Entebbe and continued to the airport before getting on to the next flight.
According to sources, there was a plan to sack Musisi ahead of the 2021 polls in a bid for the NRM to have some say on votes in Kampala. At the time, the NRM claimed that the failure to get votes in Kampala was because of the activities of the KCCA and its operations. KCCA, for instance, was clearing the streets off kiosks and street vendors. The NRM saw this as a move to deny the ruling party votes in Kampala, and as such, firing Musisi would have been a way from convincing voters to vote for Museveni. However, Musisi was clever enough to notice it.
This article comes days after the President dropped Dorothy Kisaka as ED of KCCA. Her deputy, Eng. David Luyimbazi, and Dr. Daniel Okello, the Director of Public Health, were equally fired. They have since been replaced in acting capacity.
