Cornwell Muleya is a Zambian chemical engineer, accountant and aviation consultant, who served as the Acting Chief Executive Officer at Uganda National Airlines Company the revived national airline of Uganda, effective October 2019.
He then transferred to Air Botswana Corporation, working there for seven years, rising to the position of Chief Executive Officer, in the process.
[7] In April 2021, the Daily Monitor newspaper reported that his short-term contract had been extended until September 2022, while the search for a substantive CEO continues.
[8] In April 2021, General Katumba Wamala, the Cabinet Minister of Works and Transport, suspended (with full pay), Muleya the CEO together with 12 other senior management officials at Uganda Airlines.
This was on directives from the president of Uganda, Yoweri Museveni, who ordered investigations into, corruption, mismanagement and other infractions at the airline.