{"id":27236,"date":"2020-06-06T18:18:29","date_gmt":"2020-06-06T18:18:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/?p=27236"},"modified":"2020-06-08T18:21:53","modified_gmt":"2020-06-08T18:21:53","slug":"uganda-museveni-sacks-nira-boss-over-incompetence-corruption-at-body","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/uganda-museveni-sacks-nira-boss-over-incompetence-corruption-at-body\/","title":{"rendered":"Uganda: Museveni sacks NIRA boss over incompetence, corruption at body"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President Museveni has sacked the National Identification and Registration Authority (NIRA) Executive Director Judy Obitre-Gama over alleged incompetence and corruption by the Authority.<\/p>\n<p>The NIRA board had written to President Museveni prior, citing that Obitre-Gama\u2019s contract was about to expire, and therefore recommending a renew of the same. However, Museveni said he could not renew Obitre-Gama\u2019s contract citing incompetence at the authority.<\/p>\n<p>He said NIRA needed someone who understands the profession better. \u201cI have been informed that the contract of the current Executive Director is due to expire. Given the problems faced by NIRA especially, relating to the issuance of national identity card, there is need to identify new Executive Director, especially with an Information Technology background,\u201d Museveni reportedly wrote in a recent letter.<\/p>\n<p>Read further: <a href=\"https:\/\/nilepost.co.ug\/2020\/06\/06\/museveni-sacks-nira-boss-over-incompetence-corruption-at-body\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/nilepost.co.ug\/2020\/06\/06\/museveni-sacks-nira-boss-over-incompetence-corruption-at-body\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"President Museveni has sacked the National Identification and Registration Authority (NIRA) Executive Director Judy Obitre-Gama over alleged incompetence and corruption by the Authority. The NIRA board had written to President Museveni prior, citing that Obitre-Gama\u2019s contract was about to expire, and therefore recommending a renew of the same. However, Museveni said he could not renew [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","region-uganda","type-news-articles","item-year-668","item-theme-id-documents-and-passports"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27236"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27236\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27238,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27236\/revisions\/27238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}