Police have dismissed reports that the Director in charge of ICT, Amos Ngabirano has resigned from his position.
This follows reports in the media that Ngabirano tendered in his resignation and fled the country, some claiming the resignation was forced on instruction of President Yoweri Museveni to Police chief, Gen Kale Kayihura.
According to the Daily Monitor, the President made the directive to fire Ngabirano following allegations of corruption regarding several procurement deals.
Ngabirano had been placed in charge of overseeing the implementation of the multi-billion project for the installation of CCTV cameras in major towns, as a measure to curb the rising rates of criminality.
Some of the issues said to have infuriated the President had to do with other procurement processes headed by Ngabirano which are said to have been inflated, costing government extra millions of money.
As a result of the President’s concern, “Gen Kayihura sent him [Ngabirano] on forced leave which was slated to end in April” reported Monitor.
However, the Police Spokesperson, SP Emilian Kayima has refuted the media reports regarding Ngabirano’s ‘resignation’ saying he is not privy to any letter to that effect.
“There is no document to the effect that he resigned,” Kayima told journalists during the weekly press briefing at Central Police Station in Kampala.
“I see it in the papers which don’t even give their sources. All they quote is anonymous sources,” he said.
When the reports first emerged about Ngabirano’s ‘fleeing’, the Police Political Commissar, AIGP Asan Kasingye instead told this website that he [Ngabirano] had gone on his annual leave.
“What I know is that he went on his annual leave. He has dual citizenship. He is both Ugandan, his country of birth and British,” Kasingye told SoftPower News.
“He went to spend his leave with his family in the U.K. Now, this thing of forced leave is news to me,” he said.
The IGP is yet to make a statement regarding the issue.
Last week, a credible source told us that Ngabirano had “run away” from Uganda out of fear of impending arrest for reasons the source did not delve into when we probed further.