DIRTY DEALS! Fresh Trouble Rocks Dorcas Okalany’s Lands Ministry
Kampala – The Ministry of Lands, Housing and Urban Development is reportedly boiling with tension as top officials face explosive allegations of corruption, abuse of office, nepotism, and turning the once-respected ministry into what furious insiders describe as a “marketplace of deals and suffering.”
Sources within the ministry claim one of the long-serving officials there has allegedly become “a stone in the shoe” for workers and staff spread across the Ministry Zonal Offices (MZOs) countrywide.
According to angry insiders, desperate staff are allegedly being forced to part with millions of shillings in exchange for favorable deployments and transfers.
Workers claim lucrative stations such as Wakiso, Mukono, and Kampala are allegedly being “sold like hot cakes” under a system that allegedly favors money and connections over professionalism.
“Registrars, surveyors, planners, and land officers are reportedly paying between UGX 30 million and 50 million to secure good stations,” a furious source alleged.
Lower cadre workers including typists, office attendants, and cartographers are also reportedly being squeezed for between UGX 10 million and 15 million, while even graduate trainees are allegedly forced to cough up money just to survive in the ministry system.
Insiders further allege that this official has quietly built what some workers are now calling a “family empire” within the ministry by recruiting several relatives and close associates into strategic positions.
Sources claim some Ministry Zonal Offices, especially in Wakiso and Mukono, have allegedly been turned into family territories dominated by loyalists and relatives linked to the powerful official.
The allegations become even more explosive with claims that the current Acting Commissioner for Human Resource, Harriet Akello, allegedly operates under direct influence from the same official on staffing matters while established human resource procedures are reportedly being sidelined.
According to insiders, officials who disagree with this official allegedly face intimidation, frustration, transfers, or removal from sensitive positions.
The former Under Secretary, identified as Juuko, was reportedly pushed out following alleged clashes with this powerful ministry official.
Workers further allege that before this official joined the ministry, staff used to receive a monthly allowance of about UGX 200,000, but the money allegedly disappeared shortly after the arrival.
Angry employees now claim the allowance was scrapped without explanation, leaving many workers struggling financially amid increasing pressure within the ministry.
Staff stationed in distant areas including Moroto, Gulu, Lira, Kabale, Masindi, and other districts are also reportedly suffering without housing or transport facilitation despite being deployed far away from their families.
Some workers allegedly fear even applying for leave because of intimidation and pressure within the system.
“There are women returning to work days after giving birth because they fear losing favor in the system,” one insider claimed.
The scandal is reportedly becoming even dirtier as allegations of fake land titles and land grabbing continue to rock the ministry.
Sources allege that unchecked deployment of graduate trainees has allegedly created dangerous loopholes within land registries, fueling fake title syndicates and empowering land grabbers.
Some trainees are accused of allegedly conniving with fraudsters by leaking registry information and facilitating illegal processing of land documents.
The ministry is also reportedly battling allegations that some district staff are illegally operating within Ministry Zonal Offices while still earning salaries from local governments, allegedly using ministry offices to pursue lucrative land deals.
Staff further allege that the same powerful official is frequently absent from office and often out of the country, especially traveling to the United States allegedly to visit family members while confusion and internal chaos continue to grow within the ministry.
Meanwhile, one bizarre allegation now making rounds within ministry corridors involves an office attendant allegedly working in three different MZOs — KCCA, Jinja, and Mpigi — by allegedly bribing supervisors and performing duties outside her job description, including typing sensitive land titles and official documents.
As pressure mounts, insiders claim morale among workers has collapsed completely while corruption allegations and internal fights continue to eat away at one of Uganda’s most sensitive government institutions.
Workers are now calling upon the appointing authority to urgently clean up the ministry before, as some insiders dramatically put it, “the system completely goes to the dogs.”
Dorcas W. Okalany currently serves as the Permanent Secretary at the Ministry. Although she may not personally be directly involved in the alleged corruption and internal chaos, many believe the ministry under her watch has sunk into serious turmoil and yet she is expected to restore order.
As scandals, infighting, and corruption claims continue to pile up, growing whispers within ministry corridors now question whether the escalating mess could eventually place her in trouble as the accounting officer and overall head of the institution.
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