Mv Kalangala travelers scared as vessel engineer forges academic documents to get job

Panic has engulfed travelers who use MV Kalangala as Ministry of Works and Transport questioned the presentation of forged academic documents to risk Islanders lives as they sail them in a 51 nautical mile journey from Entebbe to Kalangala.

In February this year, Ministry of works officials wrote to Mr Katassa Charles Bbosa, demanding an explanation on why he forged documents to qualify for a job of a chief engineer on Mv Kalangala.

The vessel is only government owned Maritime Operator between Entebbe and Kalangala.

It has served islanders since 2007. However, more than half of the years it has transported Islanders, Katassa Charles Bbosa has been operating as chief engineer.

During his tenure, the vessel broke down twice while transporting people and cargo. The other incident, the engineer Bbosa disregarded advice from close associates and cleared the transportation of people and Cargo from Kalangala with a Lump in a dilapidated state.

The vessel broke down 30 minutes into the 3 and a half hours journey. The Lump, being a heavy material acts as a facility on any landing craft of loading and offloading people and cargo.

It also helps in the provision of balance and the measurement of the metacentric height and the Vessels center of gravity while on water.

Being a heavy facility, it’s breakdown can immediately cause the capsizing and sinking of Mv Kalangala.

It is upon such background that the Ministry of works and Transport, through its department of Maritime Adminstration decided to review documents of all staff.

It emerges upon review that the Chief Engineer of the vessel Mr Charles Katassa Bbosa had forged documents from St Marteen Island Maritime Adminstration clearing him to be competent to serve as a chief engineer on MV Kalangala.

However, upon due diligence, the Ministry of Works and Transport established that the institution provided only offers certificates and trainings to American students only.

The Ministry later established that Bbosa did not the country during the period he indicated that he had traveled abroad for studies and education.

Now, in a directive to Bbosa, the Ministry gave an order to the Mv Kalangala engineer to immediately give defense on why forged the documents and not going to school and attain education.

“We demand that you offer an explanation in a period of two weeks upon receipt of the letter, ” part of the letter directing Bbosa reads.

Sources close to the accused told Entebbe Post that the operator has now asked staff of the vessel and the private company operating MV Kalangala have returned to the Nasser road “University” seeking to ammend their documents to clearly ascertain that they attended Dar el Salam Maritime Institution and not St Marteen Island Maritime Adminstration in the United States.

“We had kept this as a top secret. We wonder how it leaked to the media. It reduces the confidence Ugandans have in MV Kalangala but we shall do anything possible to handle,” a source on MV Kalangala told Entebbe Post.

Charles Katassa Bbosa

The anormalies come two years after Mv Templar, a rudimentary boat operated by K Palm Beach capsized towards Mutima beach in Mukono, killing more than 25 people.

The Department of Maritime Adminstration in the Ministry of Works has remained tight lipped on the matter.

Entebbe Post has also established that three other vessel operators in MV Kalangala do not have requisite academic qualifications to man such a sophisticated vessel.

The Islanders are now scared on their safety while traveling on a vessel such as Mv Kalangala that has incompetent engineers.

More details follow.

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