Inside the alleged 'dictatorship, impunity and exclusion' of UHRC's Wangadya

The petitioners claim that in January 2025 the commission reportedly spent a total of sh169m in air tickets, visa costs and allowances to Wangadya, Kaheru and Pauline Nansamba. According to the petition, Nansamba joined the Commission in September 2021 as the chairperson’s personal assistant but has since been rapidly promoted to director of complaints, investigations and legal services and caretaker director of monitoring and inspections.

Titled Threat to Government Image Due to Gross Corruption at Uganda Human Rights Commission by the Chairperson Mariam Wangadya and Commissioner Crispin Kaheru, the petition accuses the commission’s leadership of financial misconduct, abuse of office, administrative overreach and systemic governance failures.