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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.
President Yoweri Kaguta Tibuhaburwa Museveni has renewed the contract of his sister Dr Violet Kajubiri Floerich as the deputy chairperson of the Education Service Commission (ESC).
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.
There was drama in Uganda’s Parliament after a member of Parliament accused his colleague of using a complicated accent that he claimed left many legislators, including the speaker, guessing what he is saying.
Uganda National Teachers’ Union (Unatu) secretary general Filbert Bates Baguma has dared those claiming that he and fellow union leaders pocketed billions of Shillings in bribes to betray striking secondary school arts and primary school teachers by suspending their industrial action without any deal.
Over 1,570 Economics and Entrepreneurship teachers have failed to score the required mark for them to proceed to the next stage of the recruitment exercise currently undertaken by the Education Service Commission (ESC).
Filbert Bates Baguma, the secretary general of the Uganda National Teachers’ Union (Unatu) has spoken out on reports that leaders of the teachers’ umbrella body were bribed by President Yoweri Museveni so as to betray their colleagues and call off the strike empty handed.