Tayebwa said it has come to the attention of Parliament that the Government has been paying monthly salaries to the officers since 2010. Suddenly, the Ministry of Public Service wrote to Uganda Police Force – UPF management in October 2022 indicating that the officers were being overpaid and thus scrapped them off the payroll.
Joseph Ssewungu Gonzaga, the Kalungu County West representative said that the decision to pay science teachers in exclusion of arts teachers is discriminatory and contravenes provision of Article 102b of the Constitution.
According to the charge sheet prepared by Brenda Kimbugwe, Manager Prosecution in the Inspectorate of Government endorsed by Jane Frances Abodo, the Director Public Prosecution – DPP, the suspects caused the government a financial loss of more than Shillings 27.4 million between May 2015 and April 2016.
Charles Badidi ,a Teacher at Buranga Secondary School in Kamuganguzi Sub County wonders why he was deleted from the payroll in October last year despite teaching for the last thirty-four years.
Bernard Okello, the Senior Human Resource Officer Luweero District, says some of the affected workers resumed work when they didnt find money on their accounts.