{"id":11056,"date":"2021-05-26T11:31:51","date_gmt":"2021-05-26T11:31:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/?p=11056"},"modified":"2021-05-26T10:18:06","modified_gmt":"2021-05-26T10:18:06","slug":"ex-mtn-boss-grilled-in-defamation-court-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/ex-mtn-boss-grilled-in-defamation-court-case","title":{"rendered":"Ex-MTN boss grilled in defamation court case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\">Uganda<\/a>. <\/strong><\/span>The story that Mr Katamba complains about ran in the weekly East African newspaper edition of February 16-22, 2019 on page 5 titled: \u201cMTN case pits Uganda against 4 nations\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The former MTN- Uganda\u2019s manager for legal and corporate services, Mr Anthony Katamba, was yesterday interrogated before the Kampala High Court in an alleged defamation case he brought jointly against Nation Media Group (NMG-Uganda) and MTN-Uganda.Mr Katamba accuses his former employer, MTN-Uganda, its chief executive officer, Mr Wim Vanhelleputte, and its then general manager (Human Resource), Mr Michael Sekadde, of releasing information to the East African newspaper that they used to allegedly defame him.<\/p>\n<p>But during the court session before Justice Musa Ssekaana, the NMG-Uganda external lawyer, Mr James Nangwala, asked Mr Katamba to confirm if he was sacked from the telecom company over alleged incompetence.\u201cThe CEO and I had a performance review and after that, he informed me that the board had fired me. I was forced out,\u201d Mr Katamba responded in reference to another question about whether he had a rift with MTN chief executive officer.He was also asked if he had been saddened by his sacking. \u201cLoss of employment aggrieves anyone. Indeed, I was aggrieved,\u201d Mr Katamba said.<\/p>\n<p><b>On job loss<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Mr Nangwala also asked if Mr Katamba was aggrieved over loss of his monthly $15,000 (Shs54m) salary.\u201cEven if I was earning Shs1,000 per month, losing a job is bad enough,\u201d Mr Katamba replied.He was also asked whether he was still useful when he was handed a termination letter by the CEO and also whether the company he had served for 18 years, still had trust in him.In response, Mr Katamba said the board had never found him incompetent, but rather, it was a recommendation of one person.Mr Michael Mafabi, MTN\u2019s lawyer, asked Mr Katamba whether the telecom company published the story he allegedly complained about.<\/p>\n<p>The story that Mr Katamba complains about ran in the weekly East African newspaper edition of February 16-22, 2019 on page 5 titled: \u201cMTN case pits Uganda against 4 nations\u201d.\u201cMy case is that all the defendants (MTN-Uganda and NMG-Uganda) jointly caused the publication of a malicious article. But in particular, MTN was the source of the information and that is my case ,\u201d Mr Katamba said.In his December 19,2019 amended law suit, Mr Katamba claims that MTN and NMG-Uganda caused the publication of a defamatory article in the newspaper.Justice Ssekaana adjourned the hearing to August 16.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Uganda. The story that Mr Katamba complains about ran in the weekly East African newspaper edition of February 16-22, 2019 on page 5 titled: \u201cMTN case pits Uganda against 4 nations\u201d. 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