Ugandan diplomat Eriya Tusubira, recently recalled from the country’s High Commission in Abuja following a dispute with locally recruited staff, faces fresh scrutiny over an undisclosed $400-a-month private legal-services contract he entered into with the World Islamic Call Society while serving at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.Documents reviewed show that Tusubira was retained in his “individual and private capacity” as an advocate by the World Islamic Call Society’s Uganda office shortly after the organisation formalised its relationship with the government through the same ministry.Tusubira did not inform his supervisors about the side contract or declare his financial interest in WICS, according to officials familiar with the matter. There is also no indication that he obtained permission to undertake the private legal work or recused himself from official ministry business concerning the organisation.The arrangement covered October 1, 2019, to September 30, 2020, and entitled Tusubira to $400 every month—equivalent to $4,800 over the year if paid in full. Litigation, travel, disbursements and assignments outside Kampala were to be billed separately.The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and WICS had signed a host-country agreement in April 2019, formally recognising the organisation’s operations in Uganda.Tusubira is alleged to have handled matters concerning WICS at the ministry while simultaneously providing it with private legal services, raising questions about a conflict between his official responsibilities and financial interests.The documents do not independently establish his precise role in drafting, negotiating or processing the host agreement. They nevertheless show that he accepted a broad private mandate from an organisation whose official relationship with Uganda was being handled through his ministry.Under the retainer, Tusubira was required to advise WICS on legal matters, prepare legal briefs, draft contracts and correspondence, handle property transactions and represent the organisation in negotiations, meetings, mediation and arbitration.The contract also prevented WICS from retaining another provider for similar legal services during its duration. It was signed by Tusubira and WICS Uganda Country Director Saleh Ahmed Ashour.Standing Orders require disclosureThe Uganda Public Service Standing Orders and the accompanying Code of Conduct and Ethics require public officers to place the public interest ahead of their personal interests and avoid situations in which the two conflict.Section 4.6 of the Code of Conduct provides that a public officer conducting government business must not place himself or herself in a position where personal interests conflict with official duties and responsibilities.An officer facing such a conflict must inform his or her supervisor about the nature and extent of the interest.The 2010 edition of the Standing Orders, which was applicable when Tusubira signed the contract, also required public officers to uphold professional integrity, avoid using public office for personal benefit and obtain the necessary authority before undertaking outside work that could interfere with their responsibilities.Tusubira’s reported failure to disclose the retainer is therefore central to questions about whether he complied with public-service ethics rules.Sources say a disciplinary hearing should be set up to examine Tusubira’s ministry assignment, its overlap with the private services he provided to WICS and whether the arrangement influenced—or appeared capable of influencing—his handling of government business.The irregular contract ran from October 1, 2019, to September 30, 2020.Abuja strike and police deploymentThe revelations come months after Tusubira, then First Secretary and accounting officer at Uganda’s High Commission in Abuja, became embroiled in a public dispute with locally recruited embassy staff.On May 8, 2026, 17 local employees staged a strike at the mission, saying they had gone for several months without receiving their salaries.Tusubira called Nigerian police to the embassy premises to quell the protest, triggering a disturbance and public confrontation captured on video.The intervention was reportedly undertaken without prior consultation with the ministry’s headquarters in Kampala.Foreign Affairs Permanent Secretary Vincent Bagiire subsequently stripped Tusubira of his accounting-officer responsibilities.Following further inquiries into administrative infighting and corruption allegations at the mission, Bagiire recalled him to Kampala and directed him to return by August 31, 2026.The recall does not, by itself, amount to a finding of wrongdoing.Wider concerns over diplomatic disciplineThe development comes as the Foreign Affairs Ministry struggles to contain reported acts of indiscipline, misconduct and administrative breakdown at some of Uganda’s missions abroad.Uganda’s High Commission in Nigeria has previously been the subject of a criminal investigation over allegations of money laundering and embezzlement.In July 2024, the Criminal Investigations Directorate, working with the State House Anti-Corruption Unit, asked the ministry to provide documents required for inquiries into senior officials at the mission.The allegations included the suspected misuse of money intended for the construction of Uganda’s chancery in Abuja and irregular foreign-exchange transactionsThe post Recalled Ugandan Diplomat Faces Scrutiny Over Undisclosed $400-a-Month Libya Organisation Contract appeared first on The Insider.