Ono Bwino can exclusively report that there have been unending wars at the Uganda Human Rights Commission (UHRC) to the extent that one time in 2017, President Museveni decline to renew the tenure of one of the commissioners based on the advisor of his intelligence apparatus.
According to highly placed State House sources, intelligence briefed the President that the said commissioner’s actions were making the running of the institution which supervises human rights in the country very difficult.
Intelligence told the President that the said commissioner paddled lies against the then Secretary to the Commission Gordon Mwegye accussing him of being corrupt and since then, the Commission has never attracted reasonable budgetary support from the Ministry of Finance, Planning and Economic Development.
The president was also briefed about the fights the commissioner was having with his official driver over a women.
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Sources claim that this created a tense relationship with his boss which even resulted into physical fights between the two when they were on the official upcountry trips.
“In one of the intelligence briefings, the President was told that whenever the said commissioner went for a Tribunal in the Regional Offices. A one Nakooli, the former’s driver, told a story of when he drove him to one of the regions where he (Nakooli) had an administration assistant as his girlfriend. On reaching his hotel, the said commissioner called the girl who she was already in bed. Nakooli narrated that he blocked the girl from leaving the room,” a source quote the intelligence brief.
On returning to Kampala, the Commissioner was very furious and demanded for Nakooli’s dismissal from the Commission with immediate effect.
Nakooli reported the matter to the then Chairperson Meddie Kaggwa who called the two after Nakooli vowed to take the matter to the press as soon as he was given a dismissal letter.
The Commissioner feared and abandoned the matter.
The President was shocked and surprised by the behaviour of the said commissioner whose age makes him a senior citizen in the country and he decided never to re-appointed him thus relegating him to which made him ‘Katebe’.
