Junior officers working with the judiciary are panicking and questioning how they are going to survive after Dr Pius Bigirimana the Permanent Secretary and Secretary to judiciary wrote to commercial banks and other financial institutions telling them to stop issuing loans to his staff after summing up the entire amount with gross pay.
Highly placed sources in judiciary said that Bigirimana, the judiciary’s accounting officer’s decision resulted from the pressure he received from financial institutions during Covid-19 lockdown when he deducted on the gross pay from their monthly salaries which were deposited to their respective bank accounts
“When we were at home, the judiciary suspended giving us allowances for food, transport and other allowances because we were working from home. Then the banks became furious because the amount of money deposited on our bank accounts was little compared to what we signed for when receiving the loans,” one of the judiciary staff said.
He explained that they are facing financial hardships because previously, it was easy to secure bigger loan amounts because the loan was deducted from the gross pay one earned. But currently, now that the net pay is considered, their little salaries end up fetching little amount of money which cannot help them to develop themselves.
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This website has established that junior judicial officers are receiving a monthly salary ranging between Shs500,000 to Shs2m and that’s too little for one to develop themselves.
They have pleaded with their boss Bigirimana to lift the suspension for their wellbeing
We have further established that many working Ugandans are surviving on bank loans and they are using their salaries as security.
Once given this huge amount of money, it helps them to set up homes, buy cars, pay for their children’s school fees and the banks pay themselves through deducting their money from their monthly salaries.
