[UAH] Balunywa explains self to staff

Rose Birungi,

MUBs is the best run institution in Uganda, But Just because it run by A Musoga, Kabushage's papers start running stories to deceive people about the Good professor .

Kabushenge I know you are reading this ,can you please do us a favor get the mans mother out of this- In My Company here in Oman, My father and mother are entitled to free medicare from the Company I work for and yet again the state offers them very classic medical care. So the Issue of the Prof Mother should not have come in the first place. Am very disappointed with your paper

Prof Balunywa just like u Kabushenge- delivers - Do you have any question about his credential-----------------------

I have on several times ended up clashing with people who have written a lot of un acceptable things on UAH about you  yet you Kubushenge allow your people to write a lot rubbish below the belt on distinguished and prominent Musoga, His mother that is scoping so low.

Please stop wasting resources they are scarce and there are people who want them

Rashid Captain

Balunywa explains self to staff

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Prof Balunywa at a recent function. He says in an email to the Mubs staff that the allegations against him are untrue and have ulterior motives. Photo by Jopseph Kiggundu 

By  Eriasa Mukiibi Sserunjogi

Posted  Sunday, June 23  2013 at  01:00

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KAMPALA- Makerere University Business School Principal Waswa Balunywa has written to the staff of the business school about the controversy caused by a whistle-blowers' dossier to Parliament, accusing him of mismanaging the institution.

In an emailed response under the title "Information on Issues Appearing in the New Vision", Prof. Balunywa responded to the accusations raised in the dossier, including using the school's money to treat his mother, supplying goods to the institution in breach of procurement regulations and mismanaging a computer project.

Regarding the more than Shs40 million he received to treat his mother for heart complications, Prof Balunywa wrote: "It is unfortunate that whoever is making these accusations goes to this level. Nonetheless, I would like to thank my colleagues who took the decision to support my mother. I think our mothers should be spared our politics".

His farm
Prof Balunywa said he owns a farm, "Maya Farm, which I have every year declared publicly as required by PPDA." This farm, he said, "supplies pineapples and eggs to the school and sometimes potatoes." "The rest of the allegations are untrue and those making the allegations must have ulterior motives," read the email.

The Principal added that the Socket Works Computer Project, for which students were charged money but never took off, "has been investigated several times and it is clear that the intention of bringing this up is to get people to see me in bad light."

The professor also said all his travels are documented and "those of you who read my Facebook, I post stories of my journeys and benefits from them."

Regarding the accusation that he influenced the appointment of former Makerere University vice chancellor Venansius Baryamureeba as chairperson of the Mubs Council, Prof Balunywa said he was not "competent enough to mention anything about this."

He added, however, that "Prof. Baryamureeba was identified through a legitimate system and elected by Council (and) to make such remarks is to demean Council."

The complainants asked the parliamentary committee that investigated the accusations of mismanagement at Kyambogo University to also take interest in what they called a "suffocating" environment at Mubs.
They also wanted Prof Balunywa, who has led the school since its founding in 1997, to leave office since his last five-year contract expired on May 28, 2013.

Five more years
But the Mubs Council has since recommended to the Ministry of Education that Prof. Balunywa is given another five years. This was after the Principal wrote to the council, arguing that he had "served diligently" as Principal, managing "to achieve modest growth of the institution."

He asked for a chance "to serve my last term as head of this institution to see this transition (to a degree awarding institution or fully fledged university)."

Overstayed?
But Dr Collin Sentongo, who was replaced as chairman of Mubs Council by Prof Baryamureeba last year, thinks the problem is that Prof Balunywa has been in the job for too long.

"He has been in charge of that institution for more than 15 years now; isn't that enough? When people get tired of you they start digging up everything."

When he was chairman of the Mubs Council, Dr Ssentongo says he received a number of such petitions, from as far back as 2007.

emukiibi@ug.nationmedia.com