Departments to settle outstanding staff wages

TWO government departments will work together in settling outstanding wages for seven people who locked out the public and workers of the Civil and Identity Registry Office this week.
National Planning and Monitoring Department (DNPM) Secretary Hakaua Harry said these seven were recruited by the Department of Community Development as casuals in 2013.
She said action by the seven to close down the Civil and Identity Registry Office had nothing to do with NID project roll out as the media reported this week.
She said the staff concerned were not legitimate National Identify (NID) project staff since all NID project staff were on the project payroll and paid out from project funds.
“DNPM in consultation with Community Development will immediately look at settling the outstanding wages put forward by the “aggrieved staff,” she said.
“The so called aggrieved staff are considered not genuine employees of the project at this juncture and any such attempts to hinder or obstruct NID project staff from carrying out their duties is illegal.”
Registrar-General of the Civil and Identity Registry Dickson Kiragi said the seven were amongst 16 other casuals who had been laid off.
Kiragi said the seven went to the extent of locking him out of his office.
A meeting was called on Wednesday between the aggrieved staff.
Planning and Monitoring Department offered to address the issues of concern but the aggrieved staff members did not attend.