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Wanyama\u2019s appointment, recommended by President Museveni first-hand to the Vision Board, comes on the back of the head of state openly expressing disappointment with how the newspaper was running its affairs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Mr Museveni took serious issues with Vision Group over its coverage of the 2021 presidential election after the state-owned media outlets for both print and electronic gave his main challenger Robert Kyagulanyi, aka Bobi Wine, a lot of coverage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Initially taking Bobi Wine for another passing cloud, Vision took to minting from his celebrity status to sell copies but as Bobi Wine\u2019s influence became clear, Mr Museveni took a strong stand.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The New Vision heeded the warning but Kabushenga appears to have left Bukedde, a Luganda tabloid, to continue with its editorial stance. Mr Museveni and his ruling NRM party suffered a chastening defeat in Buganda at the hands of Bobi Wine\u2019s NUP party, with all his ministers, including Vice President Edward Ssekandi, suffering humiliation in the polls.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The President then lashed at Baganda, accusing them of sectarianism. As he promised to fix things, Vision Group became the most obvious target and Kabushenga had to go.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cDon is young and genial. Most people here will like him. That\u2019s definite. But his appointment is not clear. I mean, we don\u2019t know what assignment he has been tasked to execute in terms of human resource changes at the company,\u201d the editor said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Finding themselves in a dark tunnel, Vision old guards cannot help their anxiety as they wonder if Don\u2019s immediate task would be to clear out dead wood and reinstall a younger generation of journalists and managers with more passion in their veins.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The fear of the assumed impending changes is not helped by the fact that the Covid-19 pandemic has left the economy reeling, making it a tough time to be sent into early inflation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Desperate attempt to circumvent appointment<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Meanwhile, this website can exclusively reveal that as lobbying for the CEO job went into overdrive, the old guards learnt that their worst fear had been set in motion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n That fear was that Wanyama would replace Kabushenga and what initially looked like a bad joke owing to the former Daily Monitor chief sub editor and managing editor\u2019s youthfulness and apparent inexperience running such a big organisation, was bound to happen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The anxiety worsened when it was revealed that Wanyama had been recommended to the board by President Museveni, meaning the board would merely ceremoniously oversee the transition in accordance with the President\u2019s wish.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Knowing that it was just a matter of formality, a section of some managers made a last-ditch attempt to stop this from happening. The only man who can make President Museveni change his mind in such matters is his brother Gen Salim Saleh.<\/p>\n\n\n\n But Gen Saleh was too taken up with his duties in Gulu and when he tried to understand the issue at hand, he is said to have immediately dropped interest in the matter, paving way for the board to make the announcement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Desperate old guards at Vision Group attempted to stop Don Wanyama\u2019s appointment as replacement for Robert Kabushenga but the with the inevitable happening, most have been gripped by anxiety as they fear the likelihood of major overhaul of the staff setup. A joke at First Street, Industrial Area, goes that if you asked a random […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27983,"featured_media":23213,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_paywall_metabox":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[250,31],"class_list":["post-23209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-don-wanyama","tag-featured"],"yoast_head":"\n