The Butambala County lawmaker Hon. Muwanga Kivumbi has castigated the ruling government for failure to undertake inclusive decisions.
Speaking while appearing on Morning Breeze show, Kivumbi stated that there is no way one can address minor issues before handling major ones.
“You can’t address the Parish Development Model without addressing the current economic situation. Will you go and buy fertilisers when you have no soap or salt at home? Kivumbi wondered.
Hon. Muwanga Kivumbi also said that the government also made a commitment to increase salaries, but it hasn’t communicated. So, this is about poor leadership.
“We should be paid for hours worked. The whole drive of this is that a particular segment of teachers was given an increase, yet they work for the same hours and probably teach the same number of children.” Hon. Muwanga Kivumbi added saying that sometimes sits and ask himself, “who plans for this country?” “I won’t blame the President. He is not of this age.”
Just days after threatening to sack all arts teachers involved in the industrial action, the Uganda government has backed down and invited the leaders of the tutors’ union for negotiations to end the ongoing strike that has paralysed learning in public schools for two weeks now.
More than 100,000 arts teachers downed their tools on June 15 over what the Uganda National Teachers Union (Unatu) called a discriminatory salary raise.
The government allocated an over 300 percent pay increment for science teachers in the budget for the 2022/23 financial year, which starts in July.
The Ush95 billion ($25.6 million) allocation did not include arts and humanities teachers.
Last week, the Permanent Secretary Ministry of Public Services, Catherine Bitarakwate, warned the striking teachers that they would be deemed to have resigned and struck off the payroll if they failed to return to class by Thursday, June 30.
