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KAMPALA � Female employees at the Bank of Uganda can now wear trousers to the office.
The bank has had a longstanding dress code, which barred all female employees from putting on trousers when in office.
The changes came as a result of the entrance of Ms Charlotte Kutesa Muhoozi. She is the wife of Maj. Muhoozi Kainerugaba.
Highly placed sources told Sunday Monitor that the daughter-in-law of the First Family was not comfortable wearing dresses; she preferred trousers.
Management was caught in a fix. Ms Muhoozi could neither be turned away at the gate nor could she be told that trousers had been outlawed.
However, the bank�s public relations director, Mr J.B Walusimbi downplayed Ms Muhoozi�s influence on the change of the dress code.
�We have many young ladies who clamoured for change of the dress code. They raised the matter with management, who in turn presented the issue to the governor � who approved the wearing of trousers,� Walusimbi told Sunday Monitor on yesterday.
He however said one has to put on a coat just like the males are required to wear a jacket and necktie.
Staff at the bank described Ms Muhoozi as a very amiable person � who even rejected being given a special office and bodyguards at her place of work.
Ms Muhoozi is one of the senior banking officers at the central bank.
She holds a masters degree in economics and reportedly emerged best candidate during her job interview.
Ms Muhoozi, a daughter of minister of state for Finance, Sam Kutesa, has been working with the bank for the past one and half years.
Maj. Muhoozi is President Yoweri Museveni�s son and is a senior commander of the Presidential Guard Brigade (PGB).
He is currently in Israel attending an artillery commanders� course. | 
