After President Museveni dismissed KCCA leaders over the Kiteezi landfill incident, it is disturbing to learn that the Lord Mayor of Kampala, His Worship Erias Lukwago, was quoted to have said that the President would have dismissed them on day one.
Such a response from a leader of his calibre depicts the quality and standards of our leaders in opposition via effective leadership. Their shocking responses give you a second thought about their effectiveness in running the affairs of the nation when Ugandans give them a chance.
The Lord Mayor as a noble leader in legal jurisprudence seems not to understand that sacking an employee is a serious matter where an effective leader needs to first satisfy that the decision to dismiss is reasonable and reached after fair and robust investigations into the issue.
The Fountain of Honour has self-awareness and emotional regulation to make objective and fact-based decisions for the country. This promotes the country globally by the way we handle national matters based on international quality standards.
A senior leader with great experience in strategic decision making which spans 40 years is always thoughtful and deliberate but not impulsive and reactive like the Lord Mayor.
A careless leader will not put into perspective the legal risk perspective when an employee asks to be heavily compensated for unfair dismissal which comes with a huge burden on taxpayers’ money.
By 2021, KCCA was already choking on Shs 40 billion in court debts. This is majorly due to poor decision-making by the executive and technical wing at KCCA. It is in the armpits of the President to determine what happened, when it happened where it happened, and why it happened. Whether anyone else outside KCCA is involved, Whether anyone saw it happened.
It is also understandable that General Yoweri Kaguta Museveni is very tactful whereby sacking people on day one like the Lord Mayor suggests would create a leadership vacuum in assisting the victims and the whole spectrum of disaster management.
Subsequently, it is very satisfying when the President uses the Inspectorate of Government (IGG) report, an agency that is mandated under the constitution to make competent reports to inform decision-making.
It is therefore imperative for the Lord Mayor to appreciate that the delay was necessary to take necessary steps like interviewing the witnesses and gathering evidence through various reports at KCCA plus their emails to identify who is responsible and prove wrongdoing.
In conclusion, our Lord Mayor should again appreciate that running state affairs can be different from the way we conduct our family affairs. Standard practices which follow international quality assurance standards are another way of marketing our country internally and abroad hence attracting stakeholders like investors to do business with us hence more jobs for Bazzukulu.
Long live General Yoweri Kaguta Museveni Long live Hajjat Uzeiye Namyalo SPA and manager ONC
The writer is the Head of Research at Office of the National Chairman Kyambogo
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