Makerere University, under the
authorization of Vice Chancellor Prof. Barnabas Nawangwe, has fired its Public
Relations Officer Rita Namisango and appointed Dr Mohammed Kiggundu Musoke as
the acting Manager Communications and International Relations.
Dr Kiggundu, a senior lecturer in the department of Humanities and Language
Education is tasked with providing overall leadership to the communications
office and overseeing the universities communications policy, over the next one
year.
He is also expected to offer secretarial support to the office of the Vice
Chancellor in communications through monthly press briefings, monitoring news
articles, reports and periodicals about the university operations and
monitoring and reviewing the coverage of the University in the media.
His appointment took effect on January 18, 2019, according to a letter, written
on the same day by the Human Resources Director Andrew Abunyang.
“The Vice Chancellor has authorized an offer of an appointment to you as a
Manager, Communications and International Relations in the office of the Vice
Chancellor for a period of one (1) year with effect from 18 January 2019,”
Abunyang states in a letter.
Kiggundu is the immediate former chairperson of Makerere University Academic
Staff Association -MUASA. He handed over to the suspended Dr Deus Kamunyu
Muhwezi in February last year.
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