The Makerere university academic staffs’ Association has threatened to stage a sit down strike at the beginning of the next academic year unless their pension funds are remitted.
The revelation follows a release of another Auditors generals report showing that NIC (the National Insurance Corporation) owes MUASA 26.9 billion shillings on their deposit administration scheme. Last year MUASA was claiming 16.29 billion shillings as their savings but NIC denied saying it was less than 16 billion.
This led to a strike that prompted President Yoweri Museveni to intervene, in which he called for an independent audit which was carried out by auditors general earlier this year.
Pending the investigations NIC was directed to remit 10 billion shillings to MUASA as the two institutions wait for a final report.
Now that the report is out, the spokesperson of the MUASA Louis Kagenda says the academic staff have expressed the need for their funds to urgently be remitted without fail.
The university is expected to re-open for the next academic year on the 21st of August 2011.
By Mugisa Isaac Mathias