The $30,000 Payment Mystery, MPs’ Trips, Diverted Cash, and a Flawed Appointment: Inside the Scandals Threatening to bring down UNBS Boss James Kasigwa At Uganda’s standards body, a storm has turned into a tornado. Eng. James Kasigwa, once shielded by power, now faces accusations of fraud, insubordination, and mismanagement. A $30,000 mystery, defiant foreign trips, and diverted funds have triggered a full-scale probe threatening to upend one of Uganda’s key institutions.

If the UNBS Executive Director, Eng James Kasigwa, survived the storm that followed his appointment in May 2024, he would need every ounce of luck and loyal allies to survive what now looks like a tornado. At the centre of the turbulence are allegations of fraud, defiance, and mismanagement that have shaken one of Uganda’s most important regulatory institutions to its core. At the heart of the controversy lie four explosive threads: an unclear thirty-thousand-dollar payment to the Ministry of Trade, unauthorised trips by MPs to Arusha in open defiance of a presidential directive, the diversion of agency funds, and…