Casual labourers who clean the city will be paid today, a meeting brokered by Speaker Anita Among with Kampala Capital City Authority (KCCA) leadership, resolved yesterday.
The workers, who are demanding four months of pay, last week laid down their tools.
Among announced in yesterday’s meeting with KCCA leaders that payments are to be made to the sweepers’ Saccos today (Wednesday, March 6, 2024).
“Payment is going to be made tomorrow [today]. Let us have these people paid, it looks ugly seeing them suffering; these are your mothers, wives and sisters; it is not a good sight, seeing them troubled and pained,” she said.
After addressing the sweepers on Thursday last week at Parliament’s entrance, Among called a Monday, March 4, 2022 meeting with KCCA Executive Director Ms Dorothy Kisaka and Mr Ramathan Ggoobi, the Permanent Secretary Ministry of Finance, Planning and Economic Development / Secretary to Treasury which resolved to clear the arrears.
I Among advised Kisaka to itemize the payment of the sweepers under the entity’s recurrent and not development expenditure as is the case today, which she leads to such frustrations.
“The delay is because you budgeted for it as development expenditure; in the new Financial Year, it has to be put under recurrent expenditure,” she said.
KCCA & Metropolitan Affairs Minister Hon Minsa Kabanda was sighed to have the long quarrel resolved.
