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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.
With just a day left to the start of a new financial year (FY2022-2023), President Yoweri Kaguta Tibuhaburwa Museveni’s government, secondary school arts teachers have continued to stand their ground regarding their demand for salary increment in the same manner that pay for their science counterparts was raised.
National Unity Platform (NUP) leader Robert Kyagulanyi aka Bobi Wine has reacted on court rulings favouring Mityana District Woman MP Jocyce Bagala, and his brother Fred Nyanzi Ssentamu.
A trusted ally of opposition leader Dr Kizza Besigye has alleged that President Yoweri Kaguta Tibuhaburwa Museveni hates arts and its teachers, and is not willing to increase their salaries.
The Court of Appeal has ruled in favour of Mityana District Woman MP Joyce Bagala in an appeal challenging the High Court’s decision to throw her out of Parliament.
A section of MPs have expressed their support for the ongoing secondary school arts and primary school teachers’ strike, and called on government to present a supplementary budget to increase salaries.
A city law firm has come under the spotlight on allegations of fraud and forgery in the Shs2.3 billion land compensation scam where money was paid to a ‘ghost’ claimant.
Parliament of Uganda, through its director of communication and public affairs, Chris Obore, has dismissed a pay slip whose author(s) claim that Nakawa West MP Joel Ssenyonyi earns millions of Shillings and donates a good amount of the same allowance package to National Unity Platform (NUP) principal Robert Kyagulanyi aka Bobi Wine.