President Museveni is looking to appoint a new Ugandan ambassador to Angola after the former director of the Internal Security Organisation (ISO), Col Frank Kaka Bagyenda, turned down the job.
In November 2020, Kaka did not turn up in Parliament’s Appointments Committee to be vetted for the job on the recommendation of the President.
At the time, Kaka communicated his absence through a text message informing MPs that he was sick and could not appear before the committee.
This was a month after he was sacked as ISO Director General in October 2020 and replaced with Lt Col Charles Oluka.
And now it has emerged that Kaka has turned down the job and told the President that he wants to concentrate on private business. Prior to the ISO job, he was a farmer and owner of several hotels in Kalangala.
Sources close to the appointing authority told this website on Tuesday evening that the former spy chief does not consider himself fit for a diplomatic role and would rather continue his work incognito.
Kaka was not immediately available for a comment on the matter but the State minister for Foreign Affairs Henry Okello Oryem said he is not aware about Col Kaka’s position in regard to the job.
He, however, explained that the former ISO boss cannot take up the ambassadorial position without Parliament vetting.
Asked whether the Ministry of Foreign Affairs has already opened the embassy in Angola, Oryem said this is yet to be done.
President Museveni sacked Kaka as ISO boss in October 2020, 10 months after the expiry of this 3year contract in December 2019 and replaced him with Lt Col Charles Oluka, the former director-in-charge of technical services who had been initially fired by Bagyenda. Bagyenda was appointed to ISO in January 2017, replacing Brig. Ronnie Balya.
