THE M7 WEDNESDAY MEETING THAT SEALED DORIS AKOL FATE
By John V Sserwaniko
When he addressed a special cabinet session on Wednesday, Gen Museveni was clearly in a very belligerent mood and whoever attended left State House convinced that the days of Madam Doris Akol, and those of Finance Minister Matia Kasaija, her supervisor, weren't going to be many. In that cabinet meeting, specially called to finalize the 2020/21 budget estimates, the President lost his cool and several times told off Kasaijja for failing to give effective leadership to the tax sector. "I know the economy may not be doing very well but I also keep getting intelligence reports that there are leakages in tax administration which you are failing to resolve as Minister," Museveni furiously told off Kasaijja. In the same meeting, the big man from Rwakitura equally had no kind words for PSST Keith Muhakanizi.
Saying he had tolerated underperformance for too long, Museveni repeatedly talked about his revenue mobilization strategy not being realized because of inept political leadership by Kasaija at the Finance Ministry. In attendance were representatives of URA top management who understandably didn't include Akol because she still was undergoing mandatory quarantine having recently returned from one of the high-risk countries. In the end, a furious Museveni rejected everything Kasaija had presented for 2020/21 budget estimates for the new budget because he wasn't satisfied with the revenue projections that were being reflected.
Ironically, this was the 4th time Museveni (who ideally is the Finance Minister who only delegates Kasaijja) was throwing out the Finance Minister's revenue mobilization proposals for the upcoming FY. He made it clear Kasaijja had one more last chance to redeem himself or face the music-and that is showing up tomorrow for the Monday Cabinet meeting with an updated version of the same document. "We all left the Wednesday special cabinet meeting satisfied that some major pronouncements were coming and the big man was to justify all his decisions on underperformance of the sector regarding revenue mobilization," says a credible Cabinet source.
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