Amuru
Up to 300 primary school teachers in Amuru District do not have their names on the district’s payroll and do not get any other form of financial support at the end of the month, Daily Monitor has learnt.
The majority of the affected teachers were recruited early last year by the District Service Commission to boost the pupils-teacher ratio in the district.
Sources familiar with the issue told Daily Monitor that most of the affected teachers have threatened not to teach until their arrears are paid.
The district announced last year that it needed over 300 teachers prompting a massive recruitment exercise to serve the 95 primary schools in the district.
The source said the district has done very little to support the new batch of teachers or to ensure that the Ministry of Education expedites the process of their salaries.
While briefing a team of officials from Northern Uganda Rehabilitation Programme (Nurep), led by State Minister for Northern Uganda David Wakikona, Amuru’s RDC Edwin Yakobo Komakech said the situation has demoralised the teachers.
Mr Wakikona was in the district to commission the newly constructed Atiak Sub-county local government headquarters, funded by the German Development Services, under the Nurep.
Mr Komakech attributed the poor performance in last year’s PLE in which only one candidate passed in division one to the demoralisation of teachers caused by the payroll mishap.
http://www.monitor.co.ug/artman/publish/regional-special/300_teachers_in_Amuru_not_on_payroll_79940.shtml
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