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A summary report of the Inspector General of Government (IGG) Beti Kamya shows that Ms Dorothy Kisaka, the sacked executive director of the Kampala Capital City Authority (KCCA), was fired by President Museveni for mainly four reasons.

According to the summary report that this publication has seen, the core reason for the sacking was that Ms Kisaka arbitrary ignored the closure notice of the Kiteezi landfill issued by another government entity, the National Environment Management Authority (Nema), hence “operated the Kiteezi landfill without a Nema licence.”

Others reasons fronted by the ombudsman to fire Ms Kisaka were: she committed KCCA to enter into contractual obligations with the concessionaires to dump waste at Kiteezi landfill, thereby breaching the licence conditions, failed to notify the responsible office for disaster preparedness – in the Office of the Prime Minister (OPM) in line with the National Disaster Preparedness and Management Policy 2010 and that she did not seek urgent redress, including informing the political leadership at KCCA.

Further, the report accuses the sacked executive director of ignoring urgent communication from various stakeholders, including her staff to find an immediate response to the impending catastrophe at Kiteezi.

“As chairperson, senior management team, she did not consider it as a matter for discussion at that level,” reads in part the summary of the IGG report.

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