Luweero district has failed to implement a directive by the ministry of education to promote 76 teachers due to lack of a district service commission.
In 2011, the ministry of education ordered Luweero Chief Administrative Officer Christopher Kyomya and the District Service Commission to promote 76 teachers from education assistants to senior education officers as another way of strengthening the sector administration and performance.
However since then, the directive is yet to be implemented as a new district service commission is yet to be constituted.
Kyomya says that the district has only two members out of the mandated five members on the commission. He explains that the executive nominated the three remaining members but two were rejected on undisclosed grounds and the last one has not been approved by the by Public Service Commission in Kampala.
The public Service commission rejected Umaru Maalo and Mugubya Bomu, where as Betty Kyeyune’s fate has not been decided.
Kyomya says that the District Executive led by LC 5 Chairman Abdul Nadduli are, however, not contented with the Public Service Commission’s action to reject the names and are still demanding for an explanation before they can drop or propose other names.
Kyomya says that the absence of the Commission has created a backlog of cases on disciplinary, retirement, transfers, filling of vacant posts and promotions in the district. The CAO noted among others the directive of ministry of Education to promote the 76 teachers which they were supposed to effect last year but until now they have failed.
This failure has not gone with teachers who accused the executive of incompetence and having personal interest in the commission.
The chairman of Uganda National Teachers Union-Luweero Branch Richard Ssembajjwe says that failure of the district to promote the teachers has deprived them of their right to boost their financial status since they expected an increase in salary structure.
Ssembajjwe wants the district to nominate other names adding that there are many people with integrity and academic qualifications to serve on the commission. He asked the district Executive to speed up the process or else their delays will be interpreted as a sign of incompetence.
A teacher who preferred anonymity also accused the district executive of having personal interests in the commission and trying to recruit people on political grounds despite knowing that they lack integrity.
But the district vice chairman, George Balwana, denied the allegations and said they were planning to fill up gaps on the commission but their efforts were thwarted by an appeal of those people who were rejected by the public Service commission.
Balwana says that the district executive is planning to sit and discuss the same.
