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Lettered on 8th April, 2024..
INCIDENT OF STAFF INDISCIPLINE AT THE MINISTRY OF TRADE, INDUSTRY AND COOPERATIVES
Management has been drawn to media reports about an incident that occurred on Friday the 5th April 2024 regarding an Errant Officer at the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Cooperatives.
The background to this matter is that Management took a decision to optimise work space and allocate sufficient space for the Incoming Hon. Minister of State for Trade and his staffers.
The Permanent Secretary leading a team made several visits to all floors of Farmers House to reorganise the additional space for the purpose.
In total of 6 offices, were identified as part of this reorganisation where some were being painted over the weekend, others were made empty with records having to be shifted off-site, others with Ministry staff had to be relocated to other offices to create additional space. These included all support staff like Drivers, Security personnel, cleaners and some Ministry staff.
All Staff affected complied without any challenges, except one staff; Ms Sandra Karyn Aneno, the Senior Legal Officer instead refused to comply and instead opted to use abusive language (profanities) against the management team led by the Permanent Secretary in the midst of colleagues at work.
Ms. Sandra’s unnecessary aggression caused the Security team of the Permanent Secretary and that of the Ministry to restrain her from getting physical while unfortunately continuing to shout and insult the team head amidst the presence of colleagues.
Management later resolved to interdict the errant officer and have the matter comprehensively investigated.
The Officer has instead resorted to using media in an attempt to blackmail Management in their quest to investigate the matter.
Therefore, several media reports sadly including New Vision’s unresearched, reckless, sensational screaming headline purporting to create a narrative to enable the errant officer to deflect the true facts and escape investigation should be treated with the contempt they deserve.
The criminal aspects of the matter was immediately reported to police by Management to handle.
There was no slapping involved at any onetime and NewVision publication and it’s readers is hereby notified on the same.
Victoria Nansikombi
Senior Human Resource Officer
