Shadow Attorney-General Kerenga Kua believes a recent promise to teachers of a pay rise was not appropriated in the 2018 Budget.
“This government should stop making promises to people that it cannot literally afford to keep following the secretary for Personnel Management John Kali’s announcement in The National on Jan 23 of a three per cent increase in teachers and public servants’ wages this year,” he said. “It is all well and good for the government through the secretary Kali to make glossy announcements of a pay rise but the department should have made sure that the K109 million was appropriated in the 2018 Budget. “Do John Kali and Isaac Lupari have the authority to make such declarations? Furthermore, as there is no appropriation as far as I can tell, which area will suffer because the government will now have to get that K109 million committed from somewhere else in the budget to fund this three per cent increase. “This government is notorious for making these kinds of commitments without following proper processes. They did it with the K50 million gensets from Israel; then the UBS loan and the inflated costs incurred in hosting the 2015 Pacific Games.” The National
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