Ministry of Works' Kajuna tipped for Uganda Railways MD job

There is uproar at Uganda Railways over the looming return of Benon Kajuna as the MD.

Kajuna once briefly worked at URC and later went to the Ministry of Works where he is the director of Transport.

We are told the URC Board is backing Kajuna.

However, some officials at URC feel the President should intervene and appoint a person he believes can deliver rather than relying on the ‘in-effective’ Board.

Relatedly, Police has commenced investigations into the alleged sale of jobs at Uganda Railways Corporation orchestrated by a section of Board members, this publication has learnt.

Well placed sources told us that the investigations initially targeted one of the ladies on the Board (names withheld for now) and she has already been interrogated by Police CID.

It has been revealed that this Board member extorted large sums of money (in millions) from one of the job seeking Ugandans promising to influence the appointment.

However, time went on and the job did not materialize and the responsible Board member was dragged to police.

It has been revealed that there are many complaints of this nature against the same Board member as we shall reveal subsequently.

Whispers have told us that the probe has since widened to include other Board members.

“There are many people grumbling about job promises and money changing hands. The Board is at the centre as they have multiple people recruited and pending on their orders,” a source privy with the ongoing investigations intimated to us.

There are also queries on how the Board recently recruited one Isaac Natukunda as URC’s Chief Civil Engineer yet he is not registered with Uganda Engineers Registration Board.

A section of staff are also accusing the board of taking over management roles.

“I have also been told that the Board calls up to four meetings in a month where each member gets sh500,000 per sitting. The Board has literally taken over management functions,” reveals an insider.

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