The Speaker of Parliament Rt. Hon. Anita Among as the custodian of the Parliamentary Commission has this morning inducted 49 new members into the Parliamentary staff.
Surprisingly there was no advertisement for these jobs anywhere in the newspapers as required by the law.
Amongst the new recruits includes the daughter of Among’s key ally Chief Justice Alfonse Owinyi Dollo (the one she is always saying she is happy to give work), one of the sons of the Late Speaker Jacob Oulanyah, the wife of former Minister of state for Tourism Godfrey Kiwanda Ssuubi, two other relatives of Parliamentary Commissioner and Zombo woman MP Esther Afoyo-Chan (who already had 5 siblings employed in Parliament), among others.
Contacter for a comment on the illegal recruitment, the parliament public relations officer Chris Obore declined to pick up his known phone numbers.
Job Muhumuza, a disgruntled Ugandan took to Twitter to express his dismay with the unfair recruitmen process.
“If you want to see different family employed in those govt jobs change the top and the bottom will sort itself out. The sons of the poor will always be sidelined, get used to it. Jobs in this county are connections and lobbying nothing else. No books or qualifications,” he said.
It should be recalled that even the Uganda Airlines CEO Ms. Jennifer Bamuturaki was recruited for the job slot despite not filing her application letter and failing to meet the minimum academic requirements for the same position.