Workers MP Arinaitwe Rwakajara promised air in 2016
By Our Staff Writer
Hon Arinaitwe Rwakajara is one MP that has betrayed his constituents. In 2016 while campaigning for Workers MP slot, Rwakajara promised: 1- a minimum wage, which ironically was rejected by President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni due to Rwakajara’s arrogance.
He (Rwakajara) adamantly refused to include recommendations of the minister of labour as advised by the president.
Trade Union leaders have been demanding to know the fate of the minimum wage, however, Rwakajara told Central Executive Council (CEC) of National Organisation of Trade Union (NOTU), which convened in 2019 at Eureka Hotel in Ntinda that the president refused to sign (accent) to the bill into law due to subteuge by minister of labour.
But the Director for Labour in the ministry of Labour, Gender and Social Development, refuted Rwakajara’s allegations as untrue, baseless and unfounded.
He instead castigated Rwakajara for misleading the house by introducing a completely new bill and ignoring the advice of ministry Labour, Gender and Social Development and using arrogance and ignorance on matters pertaining to minimum wage fixing in the county. President Museveni had no option but to throw the bill in the dust bin.
The Drone has also established that Rwakajara is struggling to go back to parliament. Workers accuse him of hiding away from them; and failure to pick their calls and fulfilling his promises as per his 2016 manifesto.
According to his manifesto he promised to run Workers Voice Magazine, which he has killed and buried.
As if that is not bad enough, Hon Rwakajara, promised to set up a workers radio and TV, but he reportedly received the radio and TV equipment from South African Trade Union partners (Workers World), which he allegedly sold.
He promised to fund capacity building for Trade Union leaders and strengthening labour unions through training and empowerment but has never funded even a single project for workers as promised.
Hon Rwakajara runs the NOTU -owned Labour College of East Africa as a family business and does not pay workers.
Efforts to talk to Rwakajara on his known official mobile phones 0701114582 and 0772496491were fruitless as he declined to pick The Drone Media calls.