KAMPALA– Government has revealed that a total number of 33,754 public servants are set to retire between this year and 2028.
According to the Ministry of Public Service new human resource report 2023 disseminated yesterday, teaching service will account for 56% of these retirements.
In general, a total of 5,493 will retire this year, 5,631 in 2025, 5,876 in 2026, 8,239 in 2027, 8,515 in 2028 and all these will come from government ministries and departments, Uganda Police force, Public Universities, referral hospitals, primary health care, teaching service and local government.
According to the report, this year, 3,180 in the teaching service will retire, 3,109 in 2025, 3,231 in 2026, 4,557 in 2027, and 4,864 in 2028 with a total of 18,941 in the next five years.
Suzan Nakitto, the Principal Monitoring and Evaluation Officer explains that even early retirement in the public has increased significantly from 443 in FY 2020/21 to 819 in FY 2022/23
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