{"id":3637,"date":"2021-02-04T19:02:24","date_gmt":"2021-02-04T19:02:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/?p=3637"},"modified":"2021-02-04T17:25:38","modified_gmt":"2021-02-04T17:25:38","slug":"contracts-of-top-eoc-bosses-expire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/contracts-of-top-eoc-bosses-expire","title":{"rendered":"Contracts of top EOC bosses expire"},"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>All contracts of officials at the Equal Opportunities Commission (EOC) have run out yet the appointing authority has remained silent on their fate.<\/p>\n<p>The contracts for EOC commissioners, including the chairperson, Ms Sylvia Muwebwa Ntambi, expired in January but the President has not communicated whether he will renew them.However, three of the commissioners, including the Ms Ntambi, are eligible to be reappointment for another five-year term.<\/p>\n<p>The other EOC members are Mr Joel Cox Ojuko, Mr Patrobas Sirabo Wafula, Ms Zaminah Malole and Mr Dennis Nduhura. The commissioners have since left office as they await the President\u2019s decision.Sources close to State House have told Daily Monitor that the President is still consulting widely on the matter.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Aggrey Kibenge, the permanent secretary in the Gender ministry, which is the mother docket of EOC, yesterday confirmed the expiry of contracts for the five commissioners\u2019.\u201cThe decision to renew their contracts entirely lies in the hands of the appointing authority, who is the President,\u201d Mr Kibenge explained by telephone yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe minister has taken up the matter and we await the decision of the President,\u201d he added.Mr Kabenge further explained that the affected commissioners are set to hand over office tomorrow as they wait on the President.Mr Yusuf Muziransa, the EOC communications manager, however, dismissed fears of a looming crisis at EOC due to the expiry of the commissioners\u2019 contracts. Asked whether the President has accepted to renew contracts for the three commissioners, Senior Presidential Press Secretary Don Wanyama yesterday said:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t have details on it yet\u201dThe expiry of the commissioners\u2019 contracts comes at a time when the EOC chairperson, Ms Ntambi, is battling corruption charges before the Anti-Corruption Court in Kololo, Kampala.They include two counts of conspiracy to defraud government and corruption.<\/p>\n<p><b>editorial@ug.nationmedia.com<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Uganda. All contracts of officials at the Equal Opportunities Commission (EOC) have run out yet the appointing authority has remained silent on their fate. The contracts for EOC commissioners, including the chairperson, Ms Sylvia Muwebwa Ntambi, expired in January but the President has not communicated whether he will renew them.However, three of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":3636,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,5,8],"tags":[233,240,234],"class_list":["post-3637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-economy","category-homepage-english","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-uganda","tag-uganda"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Contracts of top EOC bosses expire - Uganda<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"All contracts of officials at the Equal Opportunities Commission (EOC) have run out yet the appointing authority has rem ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/contracts-of-top-eoc-bosses-expire\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Contracts of top EOC bosses expire\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"All contracts of officials at the Equal Opportunities Commission (EOC) have run out yet the appointing authority has rem ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/contracts-of-top-eoc-bosses-expire\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Uganda\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2021-02-04T19:02:24+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/uganda\/sites\/34\/2021\/02\/img-601c2df7eb787.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"720\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"480\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/contracts-of-top-eoc-bosses-expire#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/contracts-of-top-eoc-bosses-expire\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Contracts of top EOC bosses expire\",\"datePublished\":\"2021-02-04T19:02:24+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/contracts-of-top-eoc-bosses-expire\"},\"wordCount\":313,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/contracts-of-top-eoc-bosses-expire#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/uganda\/sites\/34\/2021\/02\/img-601c2df7eb787.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Uganda\",\"uganda\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"economy\",\"homepage-english\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/contracts-of-top-eoc-bosses-expire#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/contracts-of-top-eoc-bosses-expire\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/contracts-of-top-eoc-bosses-expire\",\"name\":\"Contracts of top EOC bosses expire - 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