10 January 2025
By Isaac senabulya
Speaker Anita Among has tasked the Minister of State for Higher Education, John Muyingo to explain why the Ministry ignored the decision by Parliament to halt the recruitment of teachers to various Seed Schools across the country, following allegations of corruption, bribery and nepotism that marred the process and instead the Ministry carried on with the recruitment exercise.
Her directive followed a concern raised by Maurice Kibalya the Bugabula North county member of parliament who revealed that although Parliament has referred the petition to the Education Committee, officials at the Ministry of Education disregarded Parliament and carried on with the exercise during the festive season.
Minister Muyingo admitted that the recruitment process was ongoing and noted that it wasn’t the intention of the Ministry of Education to disregard Parliament, but the process couldn’t be halted as it would the operations of the 115 schools.
“It is true we have advertised and people have started applying, so the process of recruitment started. I don’t know what comes from the Committee really, I don’t know what the Committee is doing about it, but for us, we have continued according to the program. We are trying our best to be fair to each and everybody. People were using money to access the payroll and the schools are opening tomorrow and if we halted this exercise, this means that these schools will not be able to operate well,” noted Muyingo.
“There was an issue concerning recruitment of teachers in seed schools and you referred the matter to the Committee of Education but during the Christmas season, the process continued and recruitment was going on. We need guidance because you referred the matter to the Committee of Education, we haven’t received the report from the Committee but recruitment is still ongoing, teachers and schools are wondering what is happening next,” noted Kibalya.
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