Starting this
month, lands state minister Idah Nantaba will be taking home sh18, 000
after the Parliament Commission deducted sh7m off her monthly salary to
clear a sh23.7m debt.
The money in question arose from court costs awarded to a one Abby
Kasolo Kiberu, who sued the minister for giving away his 38.09-acre
piece of land in Wasozi Kitende Village in Wakiso district to another
family.
In an interview with Bukedde on Wednesday, Nantaba said she had been
informed by the Parliamentary Commission that the deductions will start
this month.
"It is unfair," she stated. "They are going to chop my salary, the
salary of an individual, yet whatever I used to do was government work."
She said earns sh18.7m in salary and allowances every month, of which
sh8.78m goes into servicing a loan she got from the Housing Finance
Bank.
Like other NRM MPs, Nantaba contributes sh241, 200 to her party every
month. She also contributes sh2.66m to the Parliamentary savings and
credit cooperative. "It means that they are going to be deducting a
total of sh18.68m. I will remain with sh18,000 only. I am bitter," she
lamented.
Last Month, court order Parliament to attach Nantaba's salary to clear the sh23.7m debt.
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