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KAMPALA - The Minister of Finance, Mr Gerald Sendaula, has finally sacked the embattled NSSF Managing Director, Mr Leonard Mpuuma.
Mpuuma, who has been on suspension, will be paid Shs89.4 million before taxes in salary and gratuity.
The sacking follows accusations of financial impropriety in the joint venture housing deal between the National Social Security Fund and Mugoya Construction Company.
In the deal, NSSF was supposed to build about 400 housing units at Nsimbe on the Kampala-Masaka Road. But the deal went sour after the ISO Economic Affairs Director, Mr Teddy Seezi Cheeye, blew the whistle implicating NSSF top management in corruption.
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In a letter dated December 7, Sendaula wrote to Mpuuma, he said, "This is to inform you that following the investigations into the allegations of impropriety in the operations of the National Social Security Fund (NSSF), your employment services as managing director of NSSF have been terminated with immediate effect."
The same letter authorises Mpuma to be paid three months salary and gratuity as per his terms of his employment. Gratuity is 25 percent of a year's gross salary.
Mpuuma, whose monthly salary was Shs14.9 million, is entitled to Shs44.7 million as salary and a gratuity of Shs44.7 million which adds up to Shs89.4 million before taxes.
The letter, copied to the Prime Minister, Minister of State for Finance (general duties), Ministry of Finance Permanent Secretary and Secretary to the Treasury and the NSSF Acting Managing Director, instructed him to immediately to the Acting Managing Direc
tor, Mr
Martin Bandebiire.
Bandebiire was the Corporation Secretary before he was appointed MD at NSSF.
The Monitor has learnt that Mpuuma has handed over his official car but was yet to formally hand over other property.
Mpuuma admitted having received the sacking letter but declined to comment on the handover.
Bandebiire in an interview said Mpuuma is yet to handover this week.
Mpuuma's three-year contract was supposed to expire on December 31, 2005.
President Yoweri Museveni had earlier, on September 21 ordered the sacking of Mpuuma. The President through his personal secretary, Amelia Kyambadde, ordered Sendaula, to also disband the NSSF board.
Sendaula, however, didn't effect the order immediately. He instead suspended the board till late November.
Sources said the President had initially dismissed Mpuuma but was advised that it was not consistent with the law. Mpuuma's dismissal was then scaled down to
suspension.
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