By Sadique Bamwita
ENTEBBE
The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Uganda Airlines is under fire and deep trouble after the State House Anti-Corruption Unit in partnership with the Police Criminal Investigations Directorate commenced investigations into alleged abuse of office, embezzlement of funds and false accounting against the Airlines.
Her woes followed issuance of a letter dated January 7, 2026 authored and signed by Fred Lumala on behalf of the Deputy Director of CID in charge of Economic Fraud and Anti-Corruption, in which he instructed the Chief Executive Officer of Uganda Airlines to avail him with extensive financial, procurement and operational documents to help in the ongoing investigations into the national carrier’s financial transactions.
Some of the notable certified copies or documents sought after by the joint investigation team include the approved national airline business and implementation plan, budget for the F/Y 2024/2025, contracts committee minutes that approved the purchase of Boeing Aircraft and procurement files for Mix jet flight support services, Associated Energy Group, Nyanzi Tours and Travel and Aircraft leasing services (ALS) Limited.
The police have asked for documents on the procurement file for the construction of Uganda Airlines offices in Entebbe, the internal audit report for the Financial Year 2024/2025, revenue accounting and ticketing records for the Year 2024 / 2025 and Banking and cash receipts for FY 2024/2025.
Furthermore, investigators are seeking for the expenditure and supplier transactions for fuel for FY 2024 / 2025 and a list of companies which supported the launch of the Uganda Airlines London Route which marked the national carrier’s entry into long haul operations.
The senior detective has since tasked the Uganda Airlines officials to hand over the documents to D/SP Winfred Nakatudde who was assigned to receive the requested documents.
However, since mid-last year, the National Airline has been in the spotlight over a number of issues including several corruption allegations, lack of spare parts, flight disruptions and an unknown notified flight cancellations among other things.
