The past few months have had a lot of changes at Uganda Airlines as the national carrier looks to reshape its management.The February 2026 departure of Jennifer Bamuturaki, the former CEO, shook up the management and board, leaving a trail of divided loyalty. The current management is headed by CEO Girma Wake who, according to top sources at Uganda Airlines, has had a recurrence of a number of power struggles in the board and management in the past few months.Our sources say one of the major talking points is the ‘sweeping’ out of Bamuturaki’s allies, whose contracts have not been renewed. Another major issue is the ‘UNOCalising’ of the airline, which loosely means the head-hunting of Uganda National Oil Company (UNOC) staff to take over key positions at Uganda Airlines.Meanwhile, there are also allegations of collusion to kill a Shs 3 billion audit probe of the airline’s usage of funds to improve its public image. All these issues have created unease among staff and management.According to the source, the Ethiopian CEO is yet to understand how ‘certain things’ work in Uganda.“He is very result-oriented and cares little about who is holding which position in management as long as they beat the targets,” said one source.“As a result, many dark arts are done behind his back, which is causing unnecessary tension.”PROCUREMENT PROBE GONE SILENTOver the years, Uganda Airlines has had several scandals and embarrassing stories. To reverse the trend, management last year earmarked Shs 3 billion to manage its public relations because Bamuturaki was reportedly not happy with the continued ‘negative’ stories.“What was intended to coerce the media instead backfired and Bamuturaki regularly found herself at the receiving end of negative publicity,” says the source.In January 2026, Bamuturaki ordered an internal probe into the usage of the funds and promised severe disciplinary action for anyone implicated. According to sources, she handed the chief role to one of the top personnel in the company’s Internal Audit department and demanded a report within three months.But before the probe could dig deeper, Bamuturaki was relieved of her position in February 2026. From then on, the probe has since died.“Many top officials who touched the funds found relief when she was sacked and ganged up to kill the probe before a new CEO could take up the position,” says the source.“The job contract for the head of the investigating team was expiring in April, 2026; so, some top officials who were being probed pressured him to abandon the probe in exchange for renewing his contract. When it was renewed in April, the probe died, and no progress report has been issued since,” said the source.Efforts to reach out to Shakilah Lamar, the Airline spokesperson were futile as she did not pick her known number.The post Uganda Airlines hit with stalled Shs 3bn media probe appeared first on The Observer Media Ltd.