NSSF PROBE: Parliament wants Minister Amongi to resign, the board to be sacked, senior management probed further and NSSF taken back to Finance Ministry Gender and Labour Minister, Betty Amongi falls into own trap as Parliamentary Probe Committee set up at her instigation dismisses her allegations against Byarugaba as false and finds her culpable of abuse of office, bordering on corruption. The committee recommends she step aside or be fired. Committee also wants NSSF management to be reverted back to the Ministry of Finance as well as recommends additional audits into NSSF projects and senior staff. Committee also wants the current board to be fired and reconstituted.

Muhereza KyamuteteraMarch 2, 2023March 2, 2023

ON THE SPOT: Gender, Labour and Social Development Minister, Hon Betty Amongi Ongom is on the spot for abuse of office, bordering on corruption.

The Parliamentary Select Committee on the state of affairs at Uganda’s National Social Security Fund (NSSF) has released its anxiously-awaited report, recommending that among others, the Minister of Gender, Labour and Social Development, (MGSLD), Hon Betty Amongi Ongom, at whose instigation the probe was constituted, resign immediately. The Hon Mwene Mpaka Rwamirama chaired the probe committee, found the Minister guilty of abuse of office, bordering on corruption as well as going beyond her powers to put the Fund’s board and management under pressure to make certain investments, which is outside her powers and without doing the necessary due diligence. The…

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