In response to questions surrounding her academic credentials, Jenifer Bamuturaki said she is not only qualified but also has vast experience as an airline CEO.
Jenifer Bamuturaki, CEO of Uganda Airlines, responded to questions surrounding her academic credentials saying she is not only qualified but also has vast experience in running an airline.
Jenifer Bamuturaki made the remarks on Wednesday while meeting the Committee on Commissions, State Authorities, and State Enterprises (COSASE) to respond to loopholes identified in the Auditor General’s report for the year 2021.
Her submission came after the Nakawa West Member of Parliament, Joel Ssenyonyi who is also the COSASE chairman rose to indicate that she (Bamuturaki) is not qualified and did not apply for the job position she currently holds as CEO at the company.
Based on the job requirements and experience that was advertised for the position earlier on, the ideal candidate was required to be in possession of a bachelor’s degree in any field and post-graduate training in administration or any other business-related course.
It also required one to at least have 10 years of aviation experience at a senior management level, the experience in marketing and commercial aspects of the airlines business including knowledge of airline commercial systems.
With this, however, Ssenyonyi indicated that Jenifer Bamuturaki only holds a Bachelor of Arts (honours) in Social Works and Social Administration which she obtained from Makerere University in 1993 with no additional post-graduate learning and yet it was a prerequisite.
“She only had a B.A SWASA and lacked post graduate training (an extra requirement). Ms Bamuturaki is currently pursuing a post graduate-diploma in Public Administration at Makerere University,” Ssenyonyi said.
“Her highest qualification as of now is a Bachelor’s in Social Works and Social Administration; how comes she was given the job. 40 others who applied perhaps had better qualifications and yet the people she is supervising have masters,” he added.
In her submission, however, Bamuturaki said she holds 15 years of experience in aviation and is well experienced for the job.
She said she has a number of certificates attained at Institutions including IATA that once compiled together can match a diploma course and this on top of her Bachelor’s degree makes her qualified to run for the position.
“It does not matter whether I went to the moon or whether I did MDD, what matters is do I have the skill? And I do. I can’t blame myself for being appointed,” Bamuturaki responded.
“The certificates I have from IATA; if you put them together, they will come to a diploma but I have a degree. It doesn’t matter what I did at degree level, but I have the skill and certification from IATA,” she said further.
In addition, she rubbished the ongoing talk of salary disparities for a number of officials at the Airlines that was raised on Tuesday by the same Committee.
The Committee on Tuesday said the chief executive officer of Uganda Airlines earns at least sh87 million per month, while the Chief Financial Officer earns sh73m, Manager Finance earns sh58m, and the Director Maintainance is on sh80m.
Others including the Manager IT, said earned sh36m, Human Resource Manager sh43m, Manager Cargo sh14m, and Quality Assurance sh43m.
Ssenyonyi wondered why some Pilots get UGX60m and others UGX50m. Some Cabin Crew members earn UGX4m, while others earn UGX2m.
He went on to question why the Airlines would continue disbursing exorbitant salaries to its workers when it is yet to start generating any profits.
“If the airline was making money, it would be okay; we want workers of the airline to be paid well but you made a loss of Shs 164 billion in the financial year 2020-2021, and yet people are being paid over Shs 80 million,” Ssenyonyi reasoned.
In response to this, however, Jenifer Bamuturaki said the circulated figures are false and baseless. She cited an example of her salary that was indicated saying that she does not earn even 50% of it.
“I was looking at the wages that were circulated, they were truly false. That is not what we earn. I for instance don’t even earn 50 per cent of what was presented,” Bamuturaki said.
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