Appeared in The Daily Monitor on 09 Jan 2010

The Inspector General of Government has instructed that the Secretatry of Ssembabule District Service Commission be dismissed.

Mr Raphael Baku ordered Mr Robert Twesigye, the Chief Administrative Officer of the district to sack Ms Assiat Nassolo, over reports that she allegedly manipulated minutes of the commission and illegally retained an unqualified employee in the district service.

A letter by Mr Baku states that the Town Clerk of Sembabule Town Council, Mr Leonard Tumusiime, retained Mr Kenneth Natumanya in service as an examiner of accounts and continued to earn a salary from September 2005, yet the District Service Commission had retired him in 2005 due to incompetence and lack of academic qualifications. The letter also says Mr Natumanya continued working after Ms Nassolo misguided Mr Tumusiime claiming that the District Service Commission under minute 15(d) 7/2005/117 had reserved their decision to retire Mr Natumanya. The IGG said Mr Natumanya was irregularly paid Shs11 million for his salary from September 2005 to June 2009 because the minutes of the Commission were manipulated.