When Jennifer Musisi hinted at leaving KCCA in 2016

Despite tendering in his resignation this month, Jennifer Musisi had thought of leaving  her position as Kampala Capital City Authority Executive Director earlier, the Nile Post reports.

Musisi on in a letter to president Museveni last week announced she had resigned her job and would cease working for KCCA on December 15 2018.

“This is to submit my resignation the position of Executive Director Kampala Capital City Authority with effect from 15 December 2018,”Musisi said in her letter through the Kampala Minister.

However in February 2016, Musisi for the first time spoke about relinquishing her duties as KCCA Executive Director.

Responding to a number of queries from her followers in a twitter question and answer session, Musisi said she had on several occasions considered leaving KCCA only to be convinced to keep on working as the head of administration in Uganda’s capital.

“Yes, I tried retiring 5 years ago but I did not succeed .I am still trying the same and I hope my boss has heard this,” the KCCA Executive Director said  on February 10 2016.

Quizzed to explain if she would be willing to work with any other president in case they are elected to lead the country, Musisi said she cannot ask anyone to give her a job because she has a lot of things to do outside KCCA.

“If anyone feels I am not useful any more, I would then take my retirement,” she added.

The KCCA Executive Director however told her twitter community she was facing some challenges like finances which said limited her work in the city especially on projects like the railway services in the city.

Fast forward, in her resignation letter, Musisi cited low funding to the Authority, lack of staff motivation and friction between the political and technical wings of KCCA as some of the issues that had led to her resignation.

“One of the main challenges has been to reconcile the competing interests between political perspectives / decisions and the strategic plans, policies, regulations and work plans of the KCCA Technical Team. Consequently, it has increasingly become difficult to achieve set targets,”Musisi said in her resignation letter.

“There is inadequate political support to the efforts of the KCCA Technical Team to transform Kampala. Many planned City improvement plans have not received political support and therefore not been implemented.”

Musisi however described her seven years at the helm of KCCA as having been an arduous and yet very exciting journey.