Kasaato pointed out that as staff, unions and employers demand for more, the NSSF is driven to always make innovations for fuller customer satisfaction, and added that they are considering modalities for realization of public demand for housing and health services.
A second Mukono Moslem-run-school has received financial assistance amounting to sh112m to refurbish a dilapidated school building, at the beginning of a weeklong corporate social responsibility (CSR) activities by the National Social Security Fund (NSSF) as they celebrate 40 years since inception.
The assistance to Kiyunga Islamic Primary School located at Kiyunga village in Kabembe parish, Kyampisi sub-county in Mukono district delivered on Tuesday December 9, 2026 by a NSSF team led by the Acting Managing Director, Gerard Paul Kasaato, follows an earlier one last year to Nassejjobe UMEA Primary School in Kasawo sub-county.
The NSSF Regional Manager – Central, Ivan Twehamye noted that the gesture is a give back action to clients who have for four decades entrusted them with their savings without any hindrance.
Twehamye talked highly of what he called inspiration of shared responsibility with colleagues, saying it is a true reflection of trust and collaboration over these years.
In his appreciation message, the headteacher for Kiyunga Islamic Primary School, Yusuf Kalibbala said the assistance will go a long way in helping management to meet their vision, mission and strategic objectives, and hence facilitate the work of significantly extending their hand in the communities they serve.
Kalibbala said the funds will not only help keep the lights burning and the roof overhead, but will also contribute to ensuring that there is food on the table for Kiyunga family. He thanked the NRM government for creating an enabling situation for such a venture to reach his school.
He decried the very high learner:teacher ratio, with the school population of 927 pupils being attended to by 12 teachers on pay roll and 7 support staff; he said the number of teachers is far too low.
“My teachers are overwhelmed, imagine, in some of the classes like in Primary Three, it has 147 pupils who are all seated in one room,” he noted.
Handing over the cheque, the Ag MD for the NSSF, Gerard Paul Kasaato was happy to note that in the forty years of their existence, people have gradually become more alert and concerned over their activities, which he said has given the fund an impetus to work harder and harder in a bid to meet expectations.
Kasaato pointed out that as staff, unions and employers demand for more, the NSSF is driven to always make innovations for fuller customer satisfaction, and added that they are considering modalities for realization of public demand for housing and health services.
The donation was witnessed by Mukono District Education Officer, Rashid Kikomeko who said it is timely as it comes at a time when the headteacher is making intermittent applications for assistance from his office for expansion and improvement of facilities at the school for proper and more effective running of business.
He pointed out that given that the central government releases ranging between sh400m-600m to the entire district for a year, NSSF’s gesture to Kiyunga Islamic PS is a gesture of comradeship and partnership which will bridge a big gap.
Kikomeko observed that out of the 2,261 primary and secondary schools in the district, the majority is constituted by private schools, implying that they are the providers of the funds from which Kiyunga is receiving the assistance, and commended private institutions for their work.
Mukono Resident District Commissioner, Hajat Fatuma Ndisaba thanked NSSF management for diligently handling savers’ money and adequately releasing assistance to institutions that need it most.
Ndisaba down played what she called unsubstantiated rumours that NSSF collects savers’ money and then passes it on to President Museveni for unbudgeted purposes.
The RDC noted that the diversionary statements are the work of unpatriotic people who do not value good services from other Ugandans.
She however noted that the state of the building which is intended to be renovated is so sorry and was already condemned by the district engineer. She advised that the donated money should be used to start a foundation of a new building on which the district will mobilize funds to complete later.