He directed the employing authorities, district executive directors throughout the country to conduct case by case scrutiny on all the debts and plan how to pay them.
Waitara made statement while responding to a supplementary question by the Special Seats MP, Kiza Hussein Mayeye (CUF) who had wanted to know how much the government owed teachers.
Earlier in her main question, she wanted to know government plans to ensure that teachers get their rightful pay after promotions and upgrading.
She asserted that the government often promotes teachers to upper grades but fail to pay them new salaries immediately, leaving them with the same salary for much longer, even for far too long.
"For how long shall these teachers continue waiting for their rightful salaries after promotion as well as leave and treatment allowances?" she asked.
In his response, the deputy minister said the government suspended promotion of teachers and other public servants in the 2015/16 and 2016/17 financial years, pending verification of their certificates, qualifications and salaries.
He said the process was to ensure the government remains with rightful public servants. "It is true that following the process there are some public servants who were promoted but not given the new salaries. Some got new salaries but were removed and there are those who never got promotions though they deserved it.”
The deputy minister told the House that in an effort to solve the challenge, the government issued directives to all employers, including executive directors in the local government authorities to update the promotion letters for them to get new salaries.
Those who had letters to that effect whose information had not been entered in the data base, the directive was that the employing authorities to update their letters by 1st April 2019, he added.
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