Ugandan Public Servants, mostly teachers working in remote areas of the country, have been missing salaries for up to a year over mistakes made with the issuing of their National Identity cards.
The salaries were still unpaid after the workers made complaints and were told the errors had been corrected.
One of those affected, Janipher Mamayi Musoba, a teacher at Nkutu Memorial School in Bugweri, said she had not been able to get her monthly salary of sh900,000 ($A340) due to a mistake in her name.
Ms Musoba said her unpaid salary arrears had accumulated to sh13 million ($A4,900).
She is one of a group of eight Public Servants from the eastern district of Bugweri who are missing salaries.
“I have been told that the error in my name has been rectified but I have still not been paid,” Ms Musoba said.
“Now the officials at the Public Service Ministry say they can’t even find me in their system,” she said.
Ms Musoba said she feared that the situation was part of a scam to steal the missing salaries.
“So, who is telling the truth and who is not? A Ministry official told me that there were many people facing the same problem and he was going to have the problem rectified, but that was the last we heard from him,” she said.
Attempts by journalists to get a comment from the Ministry of Public Service proved futile.
Kampala, 29 July 2020
