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At about 9.20 pm on June 28, 2018, the then under-fire Uganda Investment Authority (UIA) Director General, Ms Jolly Kaguhangire, agreed to vacate office as instructed by the board two days earlier.

This was pending investigations into alleged corruption, abuse of office and insubordination.

That evening Ms Kaguhangire communicated the decision to then board chairperson Emely Kugonza, and the two approved that a brief handover ceremony be held the following day at 3pm.

Ms Kaguhangire also requested not to be booted like a “chicken thief” and be allowed to “say a word” to the staff who would be present as their interim boss, Basil Ajer, also the director in charge of SMEs. UIA is the statutory body charged with investment promotion and facilitation.

Before accepting to vacate office Ms Kaguhangire had had several back-to-back telephone conversations with, among others, her line supervisors—the junior Investment and Privatisation minister Evelyn Anite and Finance minister Matia Kasaija.

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