Emyooga Sacco account frozen over leadership, fraud claims in Mbale Mbale City

The National Coordinator for the Emyooga Programme, Ms. Ritah Namuwenge, has ordered the freezing of the Mbale Northern City Division Veterans Emyooga Sacco account and directed the opening of a general inquiry file amid ongoing leadership wrangles and allegations of fraud and misuse of funds.

Namuwenge said no transactions will be allowed on the Sacco account until the leadership disputes are resolved and an audit report is made to establishes how the government funds were disbursed.

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She made the directive on Tuesday during a meeting with Sacco members at Namakwekwe Primary School in Mbale City.

The meeting was attended by the assistant resident city commissioner and the division, city commercial officers, Giso official and Sacco members.

Ms Namuwenge also asked the RCC’s office to open a general inquiry file to investigate allegations of fraud and establish the real beneficiaries of the Sacco funds and has put a ban on the Sacco account until the infighting is over, elect new leaders and get an audit report.

“There is a leadership crisis in this Sacco, which we have come to put right. Someone brought members from Mbale District to Mbale Northern City Division Veterans Emyooga Sacco,” Namuwenge said.

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“We want to know genuine beneficiaries who took the money because this was money meant for the veterans of Mbale Northern City division. All veterans claim that they have never received any money from Emyooga. We have asked for the list of beneficiaries so that we can establish what happened and help them,” she noted..

“Money is there, but you have to be organised. In other districts, people are already receiving additional funds while you are still fighting,” Ms Namuwenge said.

Namuwenge further said the Emyooga programme currently supports 18 enterprises and that government is considering adding three more, including SACCOs for religious leaders, cultural leaders and Students who finished school 3 years  ago and not employed.

The dispute centres on the leadership of the Sacco, with some veterans accusing Ms Rose Nambaya of taking over the leadership as chairperson despite allegedly not being a veteran and mobilising people from Mbale District to fill positions in the Northern City Division Emyooga Sacco.

Ms Nambaya, however, denied wrongdoing, saying she was asked by officials to mobilise veterans from Mbale District because there were not enough veterans in the city division.

“I was informed by officials to bring veterans from Mbale District to fill the gap in the city because we could not leave the money to just sit on the account yet there were people who needed it,” Ms Nambaya said.

“Mr Siraji told me that veterans were not many and that we could mix them with LDUs, vigilantes and cadres. I asked Mr Magidu of FRO NASA to help me identify them. That is how I became a mobiliser of veterans, but I am not a veteran,” she said.

She said we have an audited report for 2025 and a renewed certificate, members had started saving and applied for Shs20 million that was still on the SACCO account.

The assistant RCC, Mr Alfred Chebet, who represented the RCC at the meeting, urged the incoming leadership to prioritise transparency and accountability.

“Those who will be elected must be transparent, available to members and listen to their concerns. As we add new members, they must come when the house has been put in order and not inherit the bad things that have been there in the past,” Mr Chebet said.

“The veterans fought for the peace of this country. We want you to transform that energy and use it to fight poverty. Let us take advantage of these government programmes to sustain your families and yourselves,” he said.