{"id":44358,"date":"2023-02-05T15:49:15","date_gmt":"2023-02-05T15:49:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/former-nssf-boss-asks-to-be-reinstated"},"modified":"2023-02-05T15:49:15","modified_gmt":"2023-02-05T15:49:15","slug":"former-nssf-boss-asks-to-be-reinstated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/former-nssf-boss-asks-to-be-reinstated","title":{"rendered":"Former NSSF boss asks to be reinstated"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Uganda. <\/strong><\/span>The immediate past managing director of the National Social Security Fund (NSSF) has asked Parliament to push for his reinstatement to his former job.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Richard Byarugaba told a House committee probing mismanagement claims at the Fund that his reappointment will \u201cavert [any] reputational damage.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI would like the investigations to be done but there is no reason for me not to be in office while these investigations are being done because it has happened before [and] therefore all these things can happen while I am in office,\u201d he told the parliamentary committee on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Byarugaba was appearing before the seven-member committee to respond to abuse of office allegations levelled against him. He told the House Select Committee headed by Mr Mwine Mpaka (Mbarara City South) that problems at the Fund can be traced back to when the Finance ministry was given supervisory powers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cParliament should consider the removal of dual supervision of the Fund as this has proved to stifle decision making and on the part of accountability,\u201d Mr Byarugaba told the lawmakers.<\/p>\n<p>The amended NSSF Act gives the Finance minister and the counterpart at the Labour docket supervisory powers over the Shs17 trillion Fund. Mr Byarugaba reckons this negatively affects the administration of the Fund, not least because it slows down the decision-making process.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt would be better that we have one top [person] in charge. For me, it is the principle that dual reporting has already shown its ugly head,\u201d Mr Byarugaba said.<\/p>\n<p>The immediate past NSSF boss didn\u2019t also mince on his words when he openly accused Ms Betty Amongi, the Labour minister, of muddling in the Fund\u2019s day-to-day activities such as running the rule over its budget.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn less than one year, once we have transferred back to the [Labour] ministry, corruption, influence peddling, delay in decision making, [and other] scandals are back to haunt the savings. We had left the press but we are back to it,\u201d Mr Byarugaba said, adding, \u201cThe press by the way are happy with this. They love it. It sells their paper. Unfortunately, while they make their money, the Fund\u2019s reputation derails.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The committee commenced work on Tuesday and has already interfaced with ministers Matia Kasaija (Finance) and Amongi (Gender).<\/p>\n<p>The Auditor General, Mr John Muwanga, Workers\u2019 lawmakers and Uganda Retirement Benefits Regulatory Authority (URBRA) are the other top figures and entities that have been sounded out.<\/p>\n<p>Chief among the submissions and evidence tabled before the House on Friday were findings unearthed by Mr Muwanga. In the audits made on NSSF, Mr Muwanga noted that \u201cthe Fund did not allocate the members\u2019 individual accounts a sum of Shs38.21 billion (2020), Shs45 billion (2021) and Shs57 billion (2022) due to incomplete [records] and errors in the members\u2019 records.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The committee also briefly heard from Mr Job Richard Matua, a saver with the Fund, early this week. Mr Byarugaba told lawmakers on Friday that he broke down and cried when he heard Mr Matua making sweeping claims about his persona on a local radio station.<\/p>\n<p>Besides the submissions made by various witnesses who have been and or are yet to be received by the committee, the lawmakers have also scheduled to make on-site inspections to various sites that are deemed to be relevant to feeding into the findings of the probe.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\">Uganda<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Uganda. The immediate past managing director of the National Social Security Fund (NSSF) has asked Parliament to push for his reinstatement to his former job. Mr Richard Byarugaba told a House committee probing mismanagement claims at the Fund that his reappointment will \u201cavert [any] reputational damage.\u201d \u201cI would like the investigations to be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":44357,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,12],"tags":[233,240,234],"class_list":["post-44358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","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>Former NSSF boss asks to be reinstated - Uganda<\/title>\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\/former-nssf-boss-asks-to-be-reinstated\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Former NSSF boss asks to be reinstated\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Africa-Press &#8211; Uganda. 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