The Uganda Muslim Supreme Council-UMSC Joint Session Committee comprising of the Executive Committee and Majlis Al Ulama Committee-College of Eminent Sheikhs, the second most top organ of the council has appointed Hon. Muhammad Ali Aluma as the Acting UMSC Secretary General for the next three months commencing April 5th 2023.
The members under stewardship of Hon. Prof. Dr. Muhammad Lubega Kisambira, the UMSC National Chairperson reached the decision following findings from a 5 member team appointed by the Joint Session Committee in their last sitting on April 1st, 2023 to investigate the validity of the contract of Dr. Ramathan Mugalu, the former UMSC Secretary as he had claimed.
The team chaired by Counsel Musa Kabega authored a 9 page report indicating that the tenure of Dr. Mugalu had long expired following his nomination and appointment by a similar organ on Jan 21st 2015 in line with the UMSC Constitution.
Counsel Dr. Adam Rajab Makmot Kibwanga read the report to the attentive members who later deliberated the findings and resolved to appoint an acting Secretary General pending the election of a substantive office holder within 3 months. Haj Muhamood Kateregga and Muhammad Ali Aluma were presented as candidates and at the end Mr Aluma carried the day as was nominated and sworn in for the position by Hon. Were Abubaker Wadangho the UMSC Independent Electoral Commission Chairperson.
Earlier on ten newly appointed Regional representatives to the Property & Endowment (Awqaf) under chairmanship of Hon. Counsel Mugaino Abubakar and his Deputy Haj Jamada Luuta Musoke we’re sworn in. Others sworn in were 21 members of the Muslim Arbitration & Conciliation Committee under Sheikh Abdu Obeid Kamulegeya and Sheikh Luutu Sulaiman Wandera. The committee is mainly comprised of the former Muslim leaders and included Sheikh Hussein Rajab Kakooza among other prominent elderly Sheikhs.
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