Museveni Favorite Girl, National Airliner CEO Jennifer Bamuturaki Cut To Size
Whilst Ssenyonnyi and his people stuck to their guns and declared Bamuturaki half-baked as far as the CEO job is concerned, nothing is going to change because the president wants her to be the CEO.
By Isaac Mutema
President Yoweri Museveni directed her favourite muzzukulu Jennifer Bamuturaki to be elevated to the lofty national airline top-tier job without the bother of putting her through the interviewer’s process.
We now know why the president chose to stop her favourite candidate for the CEO job from going through the sieve conducted by the reputed Price Water Coopers.
Bamuturaki doesn’t measure up to the job on account of lacking the requisite post-graduate qualification.
We are also aware that looking to hide this inadequacy from the probing eye, Bamuturaki in a media interview said that she had studied in 2004 and obtained the required extra qualification.
Yet, the parliament’s COSASE committee led by Nakawa West’s Joel Ssenyonyi has since her elevation to the CEO job carried out some private investigation of its own and established that Museveni’s blue-eyed girl told a fat lie during that interview.
Appearing before the COSASE committee, the woman played down the post-graduate job requirement. She shared an example where she had steered the national airliner before and for a full year minus the said qualification.
So, she meant to say, she can as well steer the national airliner as a substantive CEO now without the required full qualifications.
“It doesn’t matter whether I went to the moon or I made MDD what matters is; do I have the skill, and I do,” Bamuturaki argued to the committee.
Whilst Ssenyonnyi and his people stuck to their guns and declared Bamuturaki half-baked as far as the CEO job is concerned, nothing is going to change because the president wants her to be the CEO.
One doubting this does well to recall that the line minister, Gen Edward Katumba Wamala, had rejected Museveni’s orders to give the job to Bamuturaki.
But the president forced the minister to go ahead and effect his orders to the last letter. And this was contrary to the process which had been put in place and paid for to professionally find a suitable candidate for the job.
