The Independent Uganda: You get the Truth we Pay the Price
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Parliament was shocked to hear that over 2000 teachers remain undeployed. The matter first came to light during the recent Teachers Day celebration. Minister of State for Education and Sports (Primary Education), Dr Joyce Moriku said in parliament after the matter came up in a plenary session. “Last financial year, my ministry recruited over 5,000 staff out of which, over 3,000 were teaching staff.
More than half were deployed and close to 2,000 teaching and non-teaching staff have not yet been not been deployed,” Moriku said. She added: “As I speak, the current finances we have cannot deploy all the teaching and non-teaching staff we have recruited.
The finance ministry should assure us that my ministry should be able to receive these funds so that we deploy all our teachers.” She said that the budget for deployment was Shs50 billion but the Ministry of Finance, Planning and Economic Development released only Shs32 billion, leaving a shortfall of Shs18 billion.
