MPs caucus over delayed salaries, want parliament to pay their bank loan fines

Members of Parliament will Wednesday Morning caucus over the accumulating bank loan fines accrued from a delay by Parliament to deposit their salaries for two months.

The MPs who are headed by Kakuto County MP, James Kakooza, now want parliament to incur the said fines on their behalf arguing that it is the Institution’s fault to delay salaries.

Mid this month, some legislators led by Kaaps Hassan Fungro Obongi county disclosed that parliament has failed to pay OTT tax thus making them to fail to use their laptops.

These asked that Parliament quickly clears the social media tax to enable them access Ipads.

The Uganda Parliament has been hit by a financial crisis which has led to nonpayment of allowances for Members of Parliament.

Accordingly, members of parliament received their basic salaries, but none has received allowances for the last two months.

MPs earn Shs11m as basic salary and several allowances including; Subsistence allowance of Shs4.5m, gratuity of Shs1m, town running allowance of Shs1m, committee and plenary allowances of Shs50,000 and 150,000 respectively.

Other allowances include; Medical allowances of about shs500,000 and accommodation for some MPs and Mileage allowance.

Parliament Director of Communications, Chris Obore confirmed that indeed MPs have not received their pay but the clerk is working towards resolving the issue.

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“We have not been able to process the members’ emoluments for this month, but the clerk to parliament is looking at all the established possibilities to have the matter resolved,” Obore said.

With the MPs not paid and several of them heavily indebted, the House business has been affected as most of them have no morale to attend committee meetings.

“Everyone (MP) has conviction to serve the country, a delay would not hurt morale so much but it inconveniences planning,” Obore said.