President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni has ordered the dismissal of Dr. Godfrey Bonane Pariyo, an orthopedic consultant at Masaka Regional Referral Hospital, over complaints that he does not work.

President Museveni made a directive of Dr. Pariyo’s dismissal to the Ministry of Public Service on October 16, 2024.

“I am going to dismiss him in the public interest,” the president said.

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He told Minister Wilson Muruli Mukasa that he had received complaints that Dr. Pariyo is most of the time absent from duty and used the opportunity to open the question on the practice of doctors in public service moonlighting in private practice.

He emphasized that no government doctors should be allowed to have or work for private practice because the country has many doctors and some are unemployed.

“We had allowed this because we had few doctors; now the doctors are many and some are unemployed. Could we now make it a point for dismissal from government service for any government doctor to work for private practice?” he added.

The president further said that he has in the past rejected the suggestion of keeping public servants on contracts because he did not want them to be ever worried about something.

He said the contracts can also be exploited by bad supervisors to coerce public servants to do bad things.