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Katuntu blames BoU crisis on Bagyenda, Ssekabira

XANTHIA LENI | PML Daily Correspondent by XANTHIA LENI | PML Daily Correspondent
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COSASE Chairperson, Abdu Katuntu has blamed the irregular closure of banks on the embattled former BoU Director of Supervision, Ms Justine Bagyenda and Director for Financial Markets Development Coordination, Benedict Ssekabira (R), as the probe enters week 5. (FILE PHOTO)

KAMPALA – The Chairperson of the Committee of Commissions, Statutory Authorities and State Enterprises (COSASE), Abdu Katuntu has blamed the former Executive Director Supervision, Justin Bagyenda and her partner in negotiating the sale of some of the closed banks and Benedict Ssekabira, Director Financial Markets for causing a crisis at the bank of Uganda.

Katuntu lashed out at the duo on Monday during investigations into the closure of the seven defunct banks and faulted the two for selling National Bank of Commerce as well Global Trust Bank without taking a record of the negotiation minutes.

This was after Mackey Owumu, the Director of National Payment Systems and Timothy Ssekirai Kajja Deputy Director Banking denied taking part in negotiations leading to the sale of Global Trust Bank as pointed out by Bagyenda.

After the two denied ever taking part in the negotiations, Bagyenda defended herself saying she was given their names by officials from Bank of Uganda, after admitting she only recalled attending negotiation meetings with Ssekabira because she is too old to recall what transpired and that is the reason she resigned from the bank.

However, Katuntu rejected her explanation arguing: “It shouldn’t be an excuse. The names came from Bank of Uganda, it didn’t come from the Committee. If you had told us from the beginning, we shouldn’t have wasted time interrogating others.”

When asked how long negotiations lasted leading to the sale of Global Trust Bank, Bagyenda feigned ignorance saying she doesn’t recall the time it took to negotiate and asked to cross check with Bank records, saying all she knows is that Global Trust never closed in one day.

Katuntu warned Governor of the crisis awaiting the Central bank if the Central bank staff don’t have the record and will only resort to saying they don’t remember.

“You see the crisis you have caused this nation, the two of you. Now we have to rely on brains. The problem is that when people retire, they retire with information about the institution and that shouldn’t happen under any circumstances ever,” Katuntu said.

He added: “You have new ED if you tell him how to resolve a bank, he doesn’t know and this is a Central Bank. Selling a bank is a complicated issue, you can’t sell a bank like selling a goat, you need to have records. This isn’t very sophisticated science.”

When asked how Juma Kisaame came to attend a meeting to discuss the sale of Global Trust Bank, Bagyenda revealed she invited him through a phone call, a statement that attracted shock from the Committee with Katuntu wondering how a full Executive Director Supervision would invite a prospective buyer, casually on phone.

Bagyenda bounced back saying she didn’t recall the other staff that attended the negotiation meetings since she retired not because of being young, but because she was getting old.

Anita Among, the Vice-Chairperson COSASE rejected Bagyenda’s analogy firing back: “We shouldn’t allow this impunity in the name of being old. To the best of our knowledge, you didn’t even want to leave office. You can’t keep saying I am old.”

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