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Science lecturers’ salaries were enhanced. Arts lecturers need an identical intervention
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Arts and humanities lecturers would possibly possibly resume industrial action if the authorities fails to put in force presidential directives on salary harmonization and welfare commitments in the ongoing 2026/2027 to 2030/2031 budgeting process, the Uganda Knowledgeable Humanities Lecturers’ Union (UPHTU) has warned.
In a March 11th, 2026 letter, addressed to the Minister of Public Provider, the union successfully-known with deliver that the Ministry of finance, planning and financial pattern did now not allocate any funds for arts and humanities lecturers for the length of the sizzling funds planning. The topic emerged for the length of an inter-ministerial meeting held on March 10, 2026, on the Ministry of Public Provider boardroom, chaired by the Permanent Secretary, UPHTU’s president Teopista Akello, acknowledged.
The union reminded the authorities of resolutions made at a gathering held at Utter Home, Entebbe, on June 30, 2025, between its Nationwide Govt Council and President Gen. Yoweri Kaguta Museveni. In accordance with the union, the president pledged and directed the authorities to harmonize salaries of Arts lecturers with their science counterparts in four phases, starting up with a 25 p.c increment in the 2026/2027 monetary one year.
Assorted measures agreed upon included a straight away reduction in Pay As You Own (PAYE), a authorities grant of 20 billion shillings to the UPHTU SACCO to toughen Arts and Humanities lecturers, scholarships for four natural children of lecturers, and building of personnel homes starting up in 2026/2027. The union emphasized that any deviation from these commitments would possibly per chance now not be current.
Akello warned that failure to honor the agreed directives would recede lecturers and not utilizing a option nonetheless to revoke the suspended industrial action that had been halted on June 30, 2025. Copies of the letter had been despatched to the Speaker of Parliament, the Prime Minister, the Head of Public Provider and Secretary to the Cabinet, the Minister of Training and Sports, moreover loads of eternal secretaries and workers’ Individuals of Parliament.
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