KAMPALA- The domestication of the East African Community (EAC) Mediation Agreement of 2000 is in the offing to facilitate payment of terminal benefits to former employees of the defunct East African Community.
Officials from Ministry of East African Community Affairs led by the state minister Ikuya Magode have been appearing before the Parliaments committee chaired by the Bufumbira East MP, Dr. James Nsaba Buturo to brief this committee on why the delayed Payment of Pension and Gratuity for the Former workers of the defunct East African Community.
It should be noted that about 45 years after the collapse of the first East African Community (EAC), a total of 156 listed former employees that hailed from Uganda cannot be traced in order to receive their pension and gratuity.
Last year the 1st Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for East African Affairs, Rebecca Kadaga informed Parliament on 12th March, 2023 that her Ministry is stuck with Sh7b after the listed beneficiaries failed to show up despite a list being advertised in the media in December last year.
Ikuya Magode says the Bill had been shelved for many years, they just discovered it hidden in the shelves and decided to fast track this bill to help in paying the people although most of them died a long time ago.
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Ikuya has asked the MPs to help in identifying some of the beneficiaries who worked in the East African and have not been paid their gratuity.
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The Chairperson of the Parliaments’ Committee on East African Community Dr. James Nsaba Buturo hundreds of pensioners have not been given their pension and gratuity, the coming of the bill to parliament in the next few weeks is going to address some of these imbalances to paying former workers.
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