Government responds to excessive state house staff-salary reports
Government spokesperson, Ofwono Opondo speaking to the media about State
House Salary structure at Uganda Media Center. PHOTO BY
Rachael Mabala
Following the recent media reports that some of
state house staff members earn three times the president’s salary,
Government has come out to shed more light on the matter.
Government spokesperson Ofwono Opondo in a press
briefing at the Uganda Media Center on Wednesday said the documents
obtained by the MPs had typo errors on the figures of the said salaries.
“These errors were pointed out to parliament and
each Member of Parliament also got the corrected version of the lists
through emails that MPS access on their Ipads. This is to emphasize that
State House, like any other government institution, has its monies
appropriated by Parliament and it follows the normal Public Service
Salary Scales save for a few who are appointed on a person to holder
salaries.
According to Mr Ofwono Parliament has never
cleared such astronomical figures for State House and that there was an
obvious error that was identified in time and corrected.
“It was unfortunate that some Members of Parliament chose to ignore the facts,” he said.
Mr Ofwono was flanked by the deputy Presidential
Press Secretary; Ms Linda Nabusayi who issued another statement
detailing what she claimed was the right figures of the salary structure
of all the statehouse employees.
“The structures that appeared in the media
recently quoted annual salaries and passed them off as monthly
salaries,” Ms Nabusayi.
Below is the statement on all the salaries of all the State House employees.
jkiggundu@ug.nationmedia.com
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