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Uganda: MPs Want Police Salaries Raised
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New Vision (Kampala)
11 May 2008
Posted to the web 12 May 2008
Paul Kiwuuwa
Kampala
MPS have recommended a pay raise for the Police constables and the Uganda People's Defence Forces.
The defence and internal affairs committee said a monthly salary for each constables be increased from sh161,400 to sh200,000, while the least paid soldier should get sh200,000 instead of sh180,000.
"We suspect that poor pay is one of the causes of the alleged corruption in the Police. Police constables work under many temptations yet they earn peanuts," the committee vice-chairperson, Lt. Jessica Alupo, said on Friday.
She was presenting the committee's budget for the financial years 2008-2013 before the parliamentary budget team.
MPs noted that feeding prisoners was a big challenge because of the overwhelming number of suspects on remand.
"Last month, the committee visited many prisons and we were shocked to learn that inmates at Kigo Prison have only one meal of posho and beans daily. It is served between 2:00-5:00pm," Alupo said.
"There is a funding gap of sh4.5b to feed prisoners countrywide. There are over 35,000 inmates to be fed daily."
During the committee's visit to Kigo, the inmates told the MPs that there were over 5,000 suspects on remand in the congested jail.
Some of them said they had been on remand for seven years without being tried, Alupo said.
She explained that floods, pests, diseases and failure to add manure to the soils affected the Prison's farm production.
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Alupo was responding to the chairman of the budget committee, William Okecho, who wondered why the inmates did not supplement their meals with food cultivated in the Prison farms.
Alupo said the inmates also lacked medicine and bedding.
"The Government should seek sh460m to purchase at least one-inch mattresses for each inmate and another sh460m for medicines in the 2008-2013 financial years ."
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