CLAMOUR FOR SALARY INCREMENT BY UGANDAN AUGUST HOUSE IN THE 2015/16 NATIONAL BUDGET

Jimmy Odyek

May 6 at 10:54am · Edited · 

Puzzled by the way how the Hon. Members of Parliament in Uganda can sit and decide to increase their salary by a whooping 40% effective next financial year. I took time to comment trying to figure out how a house of 375 citizens forget how teachers who made them reach that August house only want a salary increment of 10% as promised by government during their negotiation for a salary increment. Who will meet this 40%, to be accurate each teacher must pay P.A.Y.E to contribute towards the national budget. The numbers, MPs are paid Shs. 5.5M as mileage, Shs. 8m subsistence allowance, Shs. 3m salary, other allowances, medical insurance. Total monthly earnings Shs. 21m. While a class room teacher is paid Shs. 300,000/. If the MPs pay was allocated to the teachers government would pay 70 teachers. The ratio of the salary of the MP to the teachers is 1:70. For every 1 MP we miss salary for 70 teachers. What does the teacher do, the ratio of teacher: pupil is 1:45. The current situation is 1:70 on average. Therefore, 70 teachers translates into 4900 pupils. A call to the MPs is for them to reject this increment and instead focus on reducing the numbers in the August house by adopting the quotes system. 1MP: 200,000 citizens. Given the current population of Uganda, we only need (35,000,000/200,000)= 175 MP in the house. How much can we save.

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  Serapio Magambo Good analysis,we still have a long way to empower our citizens to hold these guys accountable. Assuming all constituents rejected the current MP's in the next election just because they think for themselves and mind abt their benefits,the next generation of MP's would be more conscious.But is this possible when people still fight over 1000 note to have/pass another Kisanjafor the Big man?

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  Royal Olive Prof. I guess its party politics at work, trying to strategize means of getting monies for campaigns come 2016, but on the other hand, it might be a solution to reducing bribery and corruption on the expense of the innocent poor, exploiting the poor on...See More

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  Sher Kaliba i refrained to comment because iam still analyzing the reasons behind

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  Jimmy Odyek #Magambo, Olive, Sher, we need people driven change based on facts. I wonder why Uganda can't adopt the quota system of representation, if Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania is cutting on public expenditure, in Uganda we are doing the opposite. I am reading a pub...See More

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