MATIA KASAIJA: Betty Amongi’s financial and investment requests to NSSF, were “irregular, outside the law and ill-advised”

Uganda’s Minister of Finance, Planning and Economic Development (MoFPED), Hon. Matia Kasaija, has today told the Parliamentary Committee investigating governance and administration issues in the Fund, that the acts by the Gender, Labour and Social Development minister to ask for funding from the National Social Security Fund (NSSF), an agency she supervises were wrong, outside the law and not part of her mandate. Hon Kasaija who was today appearing in the Hon Mwine Mpaka committee, also said he sharply disagreed with Hon. Betty Amongi over the matter. The committee is among others examining the circumstances surrounding the appointment of the Fund’s…