{"id":14475,"date":"2021-07-22T17:57:01","date_gmt":"2021-07-22T17:57:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/?p=14475"},"modified":"2021-07-22T15:36:11","modified_gmt":"2021-07-22T15:36:11","slug":"what-retirement-of-seven-permanent-secretaries-in-public-interest-means","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/what-retirement-of-seven-permanent-secretaries-in-public-interest-means","title":{"rendered":"What retirement of Seven permanent secretaries in \u2018public interest\u2019 means"},"content":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press<\/a> – Uganda<\/a>. <\/strong><\/span>Without providing any details, President Museveni has retired seven senior permanent secretaries in public interest.The President swung the axe 37 days after he pledged to defeat a racket of thieving officials in his government he vilified as \u201cparasites\u201d and even wished them hell.<\/p>\n

He, however, didn\u2019t name the corrupt officials but promised to root out corruption and asked the public to \u201cstay tuned\u201d.<\/p>\n

In the changes announced last week, Mr Museveni either promoted or demoted some permanent secretaries, reappointed meticulous or politically connected technocrats and sent a total of seven top government officials into early retirement.<\/p>\n

Ms Jane Kibirige (Clerk to Parliament), Ms Christine Guwatudde Kintu (Office of the Prime Minister), Mr Pius Wakabi (Agriculture), Ambassador Patrick Mugoya (Foreign Affairs), Mr Kivumbi Lutaaya (Vice President\u2019s office), Mr Benon Mutambi (Internal Affairs), and Mr David Ebong (Technology and Innovation), were all retired in public interest.<\/p>\n

The President\u2019s decision to retire the affected officials, however, rattled sections of the public that took to social media to ask about the meaning of \u201cretired in public interest.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ms Sarah Bireete, the head of the Centre for Constitutional Governance, questioned the move and asked the President to explain why he is pegging the forced retirement of the seven officials on public interest.<\/p>\n

Former Aruu MP Odonga Otto talked of double standards in the President\u2019s decision and without mentioning names, referred to \u201cdangerous permanent secretaries\u201d who were \u201cdeleted\u201d by Parliament\u2019s Public Accounts Committee (PAC), but for unexplained reasons remain in offices.<\/p>\n

In the absence of the details, the President\u2019s decision has triggered speculation on the transgressions of the affected permanent secretaries, with some of their peers who talked to Daily Monitor at the weekend calling the retirement in public interest \u201ca disgraceful send-off \u201c and \u201ca vote of no confidence.\u201d<\/p>\n

Standing Orders<\/b><\/p>\n

Counsel Isaac Ssemakadde of Legal Brains Trust of Uganda invokes Public Service to draw a line between \u201cretirement in public interest\u201d and dismissal.<\/p>\n

He, however, explains that a person previously employed in public service cannot be re-engaged after retirement in public interest and dismissal from the public service.<\/p>\n

According to Uganda Public Service Standing Orders, retirement in public interest is where the appointing authority requires an officer to relinquish his or her office as a disciplinary measure, which doesn\u2019t merit dismissal, and the officer is entitled to retirement benefits in accordance with the Pensions Act.<\/p>\n

Under government standing orders, removal from office either by dismissal or retirement in public interest is the exclusive responsibility of the appointing authority.<\/p>\n

Therefore, when a public officer is retired in public interest, the standing orders say he or she is entitled to a period of notice, any authorised earned leave and transport back to his or her place of domicile in accordance with section (A-n). However, on dismissal a public officer forfeits all his or her privileges, including claim to a period of notice.<\/p>\n

State House speaks out<\/b><\/p>\n

Although some people argued that the \u2018retirement in public interest\u2019 mode of exit triggered at the pleasure of the President is abused to punish certain individuals for political and nepotistic reasons, Mr Museveni quoted constitutional provisions and referred to the powers given to his office by Article 99, 172(1) (a) of the Constitution of the Republic of Uganda and the Uganda Public Service Standing Order (A-n).<\/p>\n

State House has defended the President\u2019s decision and reiterated that the appointing authority has the absolute right to retire public officials prematurely on the grounds of lack of integrity and ineffectiveness, in public interest, under the provisions of Public Service standing orders.<\/p>\n

\u201cBeing retired in public interest is one of the methods of retirement under the public service standing orders. It\u2019s the prerogative of the President to do that under Article 99, 172 (1) (a) [of the constitution],\u201d Senior Presidential Press Secretary Linda Nabusayi said.<\/p>\n

However, a senior technocrat in one of ministries says the President seems not to have understood that the decision to retire a public officer is a disciplinary issue and for such a person to be retired in public interest, he or she must have gone through the processes and there must be evidence that he or she refused to reform.<\/p>\n

Bukimbiri MP Eddie Kwizera Wagahungu, known for filing constitutional suits, questioned the constitutional provisions the President cited as a basis for retiring the seven permanent secretaries in public interest.<\/p>\n

\u201cArticle 99 gives the President powers to exercise authority, which is shared with Public Service Commission (PSC). I doubt whether PSC was even consulted in the appointment and retirement of some permanent secretaries,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere is a process under which such a decision is reached. You don\u2019t wake up and just retire a public officer on contract without giving him or her opportunity to be heard\u2026 a permanent secretary who has not performed to President\u2019s expectation is not retired in public interest without any minute or record of his or her transgressions. The President should have written to public service but I doubt whether this was done,\u201d he added<\/p>\n

Retired PSs speak ou<\/b><\/p>\n

tEven though some of the affected permanent secretaries\/ accounting officers refused to speak on record and chose to comment privately, Mr Benon Mutambi, the outgoing permanent secretary in the Ministry of Internal Affairs, has denied any wrongdoing and sought to be told where he fell short to deserve retirement in public interest.<\/p>\n

Mr Mutambi said: \u201cI must be honest to you; I also do not know. All I know about myself is that I had given my best, was committed to transform that place [Internal Affairs ministry]. May be I shall in future get to know where I fell short.\u201d<\/p>\n

Left to right: Mr Benon Mutambi who was dropped from Internal Affairs and Mr Kivumbi Lutaaya who was retired from Vice President\u2019s office. PHOTO\/COMBO<\/p>\n

Other affected permanent secretaries, who spoke off the record, said the President\u2019s decision does not give them opportunity to be heard, and demanded to know the crimes they committed to deserve what they called \u201cdisgraceful retirement\u201d after long years of \u201cdevotion\u201d and \u201cselfless service.\u201d<\/p>\n

The right to be heard<\/b><\/p>\n

On whether retirement in public interest violates the principle of natural justice and the right to be heard, Counsel Ssemakade, invokes \u201cthe clean hands doctrine \u201cwhere one who comes into equity must come with clean hands. He argues that since their appointments breached principles of fairness, transparency, equality and accountability, the seven permanent secretaries have no moral and legal authority to challenge anything.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe fact that they came to offices not by right, not by merit, not by fair competition but rather by gift of appointing authority, technically these public servants being interlopers at law, cannot claim the moral or legal authority to cry wolf: my right to be treated fairly and justly have been violated,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

The big question<\/b><\/p>\n

In the end, Mr Ssemakadde argues, \u201cit\u2019s a case of the proverbial chickens coming home to roost\u201d and insists that \u201cIt\u2019s irrational to understand the President\u2019s decision through the prism of rationality, fairness and legality. The rational question to ask, according to Mr Ssemakadde and other legal brains Daily Monitor talked to is \u201cWhy has the President has chosen to give these public service fat cats merely a slap on the wrist for their allegedly high crimes against the state? The people are entitled to know the reasons for the sanction of retirement in public interest.\u201d<\/p>\n

But what\u2019s public interest?<\/b><\/p>\n

According to Mr James Nangwala, another lawyer, public interest has been interpreted legally to mean something which is of serious concern and benefit to the public, the community at large, as opposed to an individual.<\/p>\n

On where the forced retirement of the permanent secretaries leaves the principal of natural justice and the right to be heard, Mr Nangwala argued: \u201cProbably the said public interest over weighs the right to be heard.\u201d Other senior lawyers who talked to Daily Monitor on the matter, however, argue that \u201cpublic interest\u201d is one of the most used terms in public administration yet it is arguably the least defined and least understood since few public officials have any clear idea what the term actually means and what its ramifications are in practice.<\/p>\n

Shadow AG weighs in<\/b><\/p>\n

According to Shadow Attorney General Wilfred Niwagaba, public interest ordinarily means that the affected officer is not fit to continue occupying a public office. The appointing authority determines what constitutes public interest and usually borders on integrity issues.<\/p>\n

\u201cA public office is held at the pleasure of the President and unless the retirement is in writing stating a reason as to why you have been retired and you find such a reason unjustified and disputable. Otherwise, under the current circumstances, the question of fair hearing here doesn\u2019t arise. The retired officers have no choice but to retire with disgrace,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

PS role<\/b><\/p>\n

A permanent secretary formulates strategic plans and coordination of multiple functional areas in a ministry, including tendering advice to the responsible minister in respect of the business of the ministry or department; Initiating implementation of policies of government, and ensuring proper expenditure of public funds in the ministry or department.<\/p>\n

what they say…<\/b><\/p>\n

\u201cBeing retired in public interest is one of the methods of retirement under the public service standing orders. It\u2019s the prerogative of the President to do that under Article 99, 172 (1) (a) [of the constitution],\u201d Senior Presidential Press Secretary Lindah Nabusayi<\/p>\n

\u201cA permanent secretary who has not performed to President\u2019s expectation is not retired in public interest without any minute or record of his or her transgressions. The President should have written to public service, but I doubt whether this was done,\u201d Bukimbiri MP Eddie Kwizera Wagahungu<\/p>\n

\u201cThe fact that they came to offices not by right, not by merit, not by fair competition but rather by gift of appointing authority, technically these public servants being interlopers at law, cannot claim the moral or legal authority to cry wolf: my right to be treated fairly and justly have been violated,\u201d Isaac Ssemakadde, lawyer<\/p>\n

\u201cA public office is held at the pleasure of the President and unless the retirement is in writing stating a reason as to why you have been retired and you find such a reason unjustified and disputable. Otherwise, under the current circumstances, the question of fair hearing doesn\u2019t arise. The retired officers have no choice, but to retire with disgrace,\u201d Shadow Attorney General Wilfred Niwagaba<\/p>\n

\u201cI must be honest to you; I also do not know. All I know about myself is that I had given my best, was committed to transform that place [Internal Affairs ministry]. May be I shall in future get to know where I fell short,\u201d Mr Benon Mutambi, the outgoing Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Internal Affairs<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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