Ministry of labour staff fight over milk

February 29, 2020February 12, 2023 TheDrone

By Drone Team

**SEE TROUBLE CAUSE AT MINISTRY OF LABOUR**

War has broken out at Simbamanyo House, which houses Ministry of Gender, Labour and Social Development. This war, according to the Drones, emanates from milk. Apparently, the staff hold routine meetings that are well facilitated, including feeding the attendees like growing babies.

In the meetings, attendees ought to have eggs, milk tea, buttered bread and all those stuff that make break-tea or evening tea, look sumptuous. The responsibility of making this happen lies on the two secretaries in the office of the commissioner of employment services.

The secretaries get sh600,000 (six hundred thousand shillings) as imprest (a fund used by a business for small items of expenditure and restored to a fixed amount periodically. “this petty cash is kept on the imprest system”) per month to make sumptuous break tea and evening tea for the routine meetings.

The trouble emerged after in some days in the routine meetings, the secretaries served break tea without milk. The Drone Media gathers that many of the staff members swore in their mother tongues, never to drink dry tea; claiming the secretaries had made extra ordinary njawulo (profit) out of the money meant for milk.

Some of the staff claim that sugar meant for the routine meetings is taken home by the secretaries. This fight for milk and sugar has left a sharp lift among the staff of labour department at Simbamanyo House.

The secretaries were overheard backbiting the disgruntled staff, “Can you imagine, people who cry over milk and the sh600,000 imprest double our salaries seven (7) times!” They said amidst laughter, which was actually in vernacular; to be precise they laughed in Runyankole -Rutoro.

The Drone Media ascertained, after the laughter; that one secretary was a Mutooro while another one a Munyankole.

It should be recalled that it is in this department, where rogue labour recruitment companies find solace. Now that they are crying for milk, if say, one labour recruiting company brings kitu kidogo (bribe), do they have guts to refuse?