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Uganda’s national army, the UPDF, has reportedly set aside some money to increase salaries of some army officers and commanders in the current (2022-2023 Financial Year), and that more officers will have their salaries raised in the next financial year.
Ugandan MPs have resolved that government presents to Parliament, a sustainable salary enhancement plan of all categories of public officers with clear budgetary indications and timelines for implementation.
Uganda’s Chief Justice Alfonse Owiny-Dollo and his deputy Richard Buteera are said to be safe following an accident their motorcade was involved in Nakasongola District.
Members of Parliament across the political divide have told President Yoweri Kaguta Tibuhaburwa Museveni’s government have emphatically told government to either bring a supplementary budget before the House or equally divide the available Shs95bn meant for enhancement of science teachers’ salaries among both arts and science teachers.
Over 1,000 teachers were illegally included on the government payroll and have been earning salaries without working, a top official at the Education Service Commission (ESC) has revealed, renewing the fight against ghost teachers and government employees.
Speaker Anita Among has constituted a committee of five MPs to draft a motion, which will include resolutions calling on government to address the grievances of teachers of arts subjects.
MPs in Uganda’s Parliament have told President Museveni’s government to increase arts teachers’ salaries to the level of their science counterparts.
Wilson Muruli Mukasa, the Minister of Public Service, has on July 06 tabled government’s official position on the enhancement of pay for public officers and as well as the industrial action by Uganda National Teachers’ Union (UNATU) in which secondary school arts teachers and all primary school teachers are protesting salary disparities.
A top Minister in President Yoweri Kaguta Tibuhaburwa Museveni’s government has rejected an advisory role offered to him by an NRM group seeking to have the Constitution changed to allow only MPs to vote for the president.