Like the proverbial phrase which says that ‘when life gives you lemons, make lemonade’, indeed outgoing Uganda Communications Commission (UCC) Executive Director Godfrey Mutabazi must be doing the same.
Snoops reveal that Mutabazi has embarked on a serious recruitment and scouting exercise for smart, experienced scribes to employ as documentary gatherers for his media house in Luzira, near Cipla Chemicals factory.
We hear Mutabazi wants to start shooting serious documentaries that can be sold to different media houses in the world.
Sources say that he wants to recruit real workers who will toil to produce material that can beam news on screens across the globe.
Our sources tell us that last year Mutabazi imported state-of-the-art studio equipment and flew in Kenyan engineers to put everything in place.
Meanwhile, last year the recruitment they carried out could not help get them the qualified senior personnel they were looking for in departments of editorial, operations, marketing and digital.
We hear he is also looking at getting digital expatriates from Kenya and India. Mutabazi has been the Executive Director of UCC for the last 10 years.
His contract expired last week, on 9th February 2020. Eng. Irene Kaggwa Ssewankambo, the Director Engineering and Communications Infrastructure, took over as the Acting Executive Director.