Uganda: Govt Stops Public Service Recruitment

Kampala — Even as thousands of jobs in central and local governments remain vacant amid soaring unemployment, the government has thrown a spanner in the works by slapping a ban on the recruitment of civil servants in 2018/19 financial year.

In an April 12 letter to all accounting officers, the Secretary to the Treasury, Mr Keith Muhakanizi, directed that no recruitment should be carried out and told chief administrative officers that wage allocation for that financial year will only be provided for in post staff.

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