Panic at UCAA as Angry Museveni Orders Firing of Over 150 Employees

President Yoweri Museveni has ordered the firing of over 150 employees at the Uganda Civil Aviation Authority (UCAA.

The directive is supposed to take immediate effect, and jobs for exactly 152 UCAA staff are on the chopping board, The Pearl Times has learnt.

Museveni accuses UCAA staff of incompetence and its top managers of corruption. He wants all the incompetent staff and those who reportedly ate bribes to hire them fired. 

Museveni has written to Works and Transport Minister Gen. Edward Katumba Wamala directing him to ensure that these 152 staff are sent packing from UCAA.

“I have received information that there is massive corruption in the UCAA in terms of a number of aspects, including recruiting unqualified people for employment there. As a consequence, serious inefficiencies cause problems that must not be allowed to continue,” Museveni wrote in a June 25 2025 letter, a copy which has been seen by The Pearl Times.

The genesis of the troubles at UCAA, The Pearl Times have further learnt, had something to do with “Maama Maria Nyerere being trapped in an archaic lift for 4 minutes.”

Museveni described the incident as “one glaring embarrassing problem.”

In the same letter in which the general from Rwakitura copied his Vice President Jessica Alupo, Prime Minister Robinah Nabbanja, Minister of Education and Sports Janet Museveni, State Minister for Works and Transport Fred Byamukama and Permanent Secretary for Ministry of Works and Transport Bageya Waiswa, the 80-year-old leader said investigations had found up to 152 unqualified staff at UCAA.

“All these must be sacked and so should those who recruited them. I demand immediate action,” Museveni directed.

UCAA has previously been involved in shocking scandals