Senior officials at the Uganda Broadcasting Corporation (UBC) have failed to provide reasons for their failure to remit over Shs7 billion of workers’ monthly pension savings to the National Social Security Fund.
The current managers of the Uganda Broadcasting Corporation and their predecessors were appearing before the parliamentary Committee on Commissions, Statutory Authorities and State Enterprises to answer queries raised in the Auditor General’s report of 2013/2014.The current and former managers of the state broadcaster failed to give the committee members convincing reasons why UBC did not remit the 15% monthly pension savings, of which the employee contributes 5% from gross salary, and the employer adds 10% of the total gross monthly wage. Committee members were also surprised to learn that the former Managing Director, Paul Kihika, authorized the spending of $20,000 (about 50 million shillings) to purchase 10 TV shows from Hong Kong. These shows have never been aired. Kihika was UBC MD from 2011 to 2014.The committee deputy chairperson Anita Amongi directed the parliamentary police to arrest Kihika and keep him in custody until he can produce documents indicating how the programmess were purchased.