Ngime Happy With Transfer

By Allan Turyaguma FORMER Mbarara Resident District Commissioner (RDC), Ngoma Ngime, has said he is happy with President Yoweri Museveni’s decision to transfer him from the President’s office to the foreign affairs ministry. “I am of course very happy about the transfer. Actually it is a promotion because now I will no longer be referred to merely as Mr. Ngoma Ngime but as his Excellency,” Ngime told The New Vision in an interview yesterday. In the RDC reshuffle announced on Tuesday, the President posted Ngime to the foreign affairs ministry and appointed Joseph Arwata new RDC for Mbarara. Ngime said he would utilise the remaining time before he takes on his new posting early next year, to concentrate on his parliamentary elections case with Mbarara municipality MP Winnie Byanyima which is still before the High Court. “This reshuffle has given me a golden opportunity to concentrate on my case with Hon. Byanyima and I am very confident that the outcome will be good,” he said. Ngime said those people who intend to jubilate thinking they have got rid of him from Mbarara municipality should forget it, as he has no intention of leaving the area permanently. “Ngime is in Mbarara to stay, not as an RDC but as a citizen and a resident. I have already designed some projects which I want to implement in the area and I can’t abandon them,” he said. There was mixed reaction among Mbarara residents to Ngime’s transfer. The chairperson of Byanyima’s election task force, Hajjati Nuliat Musoke, was grateful to the President for the transfer. “Since the parliamentary elections, the people in the municipality have been divided into two camps, one for Ngime and the other for Winnie. I must thank the President for taking Ngime and giving us another RDC so that unity can prevail again in Mbarara,” she said. The district chairman, Fred Kamugira, on Tuesday reportedly told friends at a relative’s funeral in Ishanyu that by being posted to the foreign affairs ministry, Ngime got the ‘dumping’ he deserved. Ends