New Board of Directors of Uganda Airlines inaugurated

By Charles Katabalwa

01^st April 2022

The new Board of Directors for Uganda Airlines has been installed with strict warning that there should be no room for Corruption.

The new seven member team led by Priscilla Mirembe Serukka, the Managing Director of Kairos Consult, Samson Rwahwire, Patrick Ocailap, Ebrahim Kisoro Sadrudin, a retired pilot, Herbert Kamuntu, Abdi Karim Moding and Barbara Mirembe Namugambe has been inaugurated today at a function held at Hotel Africana in Kampala.

It is replacing one of Perez Ahabwe that was last year disbanded on orders of President Museveni after chaos and infights involving the board, top management and officials from the Ministry of Works and Transport.

Speaking during the inauguration ceremony, Works and Transport Minister, Gen Katumba urged the new board to pick lessons from the collapsed airlines throughout the world to ensure the Ugandan national carrier achieves success. He says government has so far invested UGX 2 Trillion to facilitate its operation calling on the new board to work towards bridging this gap of making the carrier profitable and this will be achieved by complementing the management of the airline rather than competing with it.

The State Minister for Finance, Henry Musasizi urged the new board to work with integrity exercising a high degree of professionalism that is having a clear strategic plan and good business idea, that the national carrier will be able to start making profits and save government burden of having to inject more money into it.

The acting Uganda Airlines CEO, Jeniffer Bamuturaki promised to work together with the new board for the success of the national carrier.