Joe Kigozi, Dalton Kaweesa sent on leave as Next Media restructures operations

Next Media has sent all its senior managers on seven days’ leave to re-organize its operations. Their leave takes effect on Monday January 13 until January 20, 2025.

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However, the decision has sparked fears among some senior managers who feel their jobs are on the line.

A member of the NBS board told Bbeg Media that no member will lose their job after the re-alignment process.

“What NBS is doing is to reallign its operations as recommended by the board in December,” said the member.

We have also seen an internal memo which describes the decision as part of Business Process Re-engineering (BPR).

Under BPR, management will merge some roles, expand others and refill some key positions.

“We understand the importance of maintaining business continuity and will communicate interim arranegements were neccessary to ensure operations proceed seamlessly.” notes the memo dated January 10 and signed by the board chairman Rogers Baguma.

The Internal Memo

Those sent on leave are managers who constitute Next Media’s Top Management Team (TMT). They include deputy CEO Joe Kigozi; Head of Newsroon Dalton Kaweesa; Paul Lwanga, the Chief Operations Officer; Kevin Kaija, the Chief Content Officer and Christopher Wanobere, Chief Programming Officer.

Others are Obadia Ismail, the Chief Legal Officer; Edwin Danze, the Chief Marketing Officer; Ben Mwine, head of the Radios Group and Rachel Nyambura, the Chief Commercial Officer.

The managers, we have been told, will have to sit fresh interviews to occupy some of the new roles to be created after the restructure.

Our impeccable sources told us that those who pass the interviews will join the expanded Executive Committee (EXCO) which will have 12 slots.

Those who fail who be reabsorbed into other roles, said our source.

In the absence of the TMT, their deputies in the various departments will take charge. We have been told that new management tiers could be created after the exercise.

The decision comes amid reports that some staff members may be laid off as we reported last month.

However, our source insisted no one will be sacked after this restructuring.

Efforts to talk to Next Media were futile.

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