James Oede, the Soroti District Education Officer
The aging science teachers are trying to lower their ages in a bid to avoid mandatory retirement age so as to continue earning a reasonable salary enhancement.
The aging science teachers whose salaries were recently enhanced from about UGX 1m to of UGX 4M are desperately working around the clock to lower their ages to avoid mandatory retirement.
The government announced that effective July 2022, salaries of all science teachers will be raised from minimum of UGX 796,000 for diploma holders to maximum of UGX 3m, while salaries of graduates will be raised from UGX 1.1m to maximum of UGX 4m.
This has not gone down well with those bound to clock retirement age in a short time, the National Identification & Registration Authority has revealed.
Samuel Odongo, the Registration Officer at National Identification & Registration Authority (NIRA) Soroti-Karamoja region has revealed that every week about fifteen teachers approach NIRA seeking assistance to lower their ages in order to avoid retirement quickly.
Odongo disclosed that the teachers wanting to lower their ages fall between 50- 55 years and a majority are male teachers representing about 99%.
Odongo told our reporter that his office receives between two – five science teachers daily seeking assistance to lower their ages so as to avoid mandatory retirement quickly.
James Oede, the Soroti district education officer has called upon the affected teachers to come to terms with the situation and accept to retire honorably in accordance with public service retirement standard orders.
Oede noted that kind of behavior depicts the character of persons who did not prepared for their retirement time early.
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