Secondary school arts and primary school teachers have suspended their strike after a meeting with President Yoweri Kaguta Tibuhaburwa Museveni.

Secondary school teachers across the country have been left disillusioned after President Yoweri Museveni told their leaders under the Uganda National Teachers’ Union (Unatu) that their salaries will not be increased in the current financial year.

President Yoweri Kaguta Tibuhaburwa Museveni has announced his final decision on the arts teachers’ push for salary increment. 

The chairperson of the Uganda Human Rights Commission (UHRC) Mariam Wangadya has directed Maj Gen James Birungi, the commandant of the Chieftaincy of Military Intelligence (CMI), to release Obed Katureebe, an official at the Uganda Media Centre. 

The Uganda Local Government Workers Union (ULGWU) has listed the amount of money by which they want their current salaries enhanced or else they will lay down their tools starting this week. 

Over 2,700 Geography teachers who had hoped to land juicy government payroll jobs as education officers and assistant education officers are in tears after they failed to score the marks needed for them to proceed to the next level of the recruitment exercise for teachers who will soon be included on the government payroll.

Uganda’s President Yoweri Kaguta Tibuhaburwa Museveni is expected to meet leaders of the Uganda National Teachers’ Union (Unatu) as well as over 200 arts teachers to discuss their demand for a salary enhancement to match their colleagues who teach science subjects. 

Government has shortlisted hundreds of enrolled nurses and accountants to work as school nurses and bursars (senior assistant accountants) in schools across the country. 

There are mixed reactions after some ‘Baganda,’ the Buganda king’s subjects, have blasted UNAIDS Executive Director and opposition leader Dr Kizza Besigye’s wife Winnie Byanyima for ‘refusing’ to kneel before Kabaka Ronald Muwenda Mutebi II.