Justine Bagyenda, the sacked former Bank of Uganda, Executive Director in Charge of Supervision, according to leaked reports, deliberately hid from her own appointments hearing by the parliamentary Appointments Committee.
This is contrary to earlier reports that she had travelled out of the country and thus could not be present for the hearings, necessary to hand her, her job and partly her reputation as board member at the Financial Intelligence Authority (FIA).
Leaked phone records show Bagyenda’s phone was active at her house on Ismael Road, in Mbuya and later moved to town at or around Standard Chartered bank, where the phone was in regular use.
It is not clear why Bagyenda would hide from her own vetting; a vetting where she would have had a chance to prove her innocence and if re-appointed, regain some of her reputation back.
However it is known that the committee had already received 3 petitions seeking to block her appointment and had threatened to block her appointment.
Manjiya County’s John Baptist Nambeshe described her as having high levels of “moral turpitude