KCCA Officials stealing teachers’ retirement package-UNATU

By Drone Writer

The Uganda National Teachers Union General Secretary Filbert Baguma has revealed how Kampala Capital City Authority (KCCA) officials are
are stealing teachers’retirement package.

Baguma said that under decentralization policy, KCCA is the employer of the teachers who fall into its jurisdiction, therefore, it is responsible for their retirement package.

” You cannot retire someone and then you stay them redundant in the city. After you retire them, you literally transport them to their upcountry homes, and it is mandatory,” Baguma explained.

Baguma expelled excuses by KCCA, which claim that the authority only handles gratuity and pension. He told The Drone Media that in this
arrangement there shouldn’t be discrimination. You cannot pay some people while others are neglected.

He wondered what criteria KCCA uses to pay primary school teachers and leave out secondary school teachers. Baguma said this anomaly was caused by lack of information networks by teachers because they had not notified the teachers’ union.

Otherwise, he assured The Drone Media that the union was going to recover the money for the teachers. Surprisingly, the officials at KCCA subtly claimed the money was in the Ministry of Education and Sports, but the Principal Human Resource Officer, James Sanya, was bold and clear.

Sanya told The Drone Media that KCCA makes budget, which it submits to Ministry of Finance for such payments. “So where does Ministry of Education and Sports comes in?” the youthful officer queried.

It should be remembered that this retirement package was formerly handled by the Ministry of Public Service, but the officials there embezzled it and that is why it was changed to districts. Still the vice of stealing this money has followed it up to KCCA, yet the officials at Ministry of Public Service are still serving their sentences at Luzira Prisons.

The Drone Media talked to one of the retirees, Emmanuel Tukesiga, he said Uganda needs Jesus Christ badly because her sin is beyond limits.
“How can someone believed to be energetic and able to make more money steal money from the old people, we are pensioners. These people
are not ashamed,” Tukesiga mused.