Africa-Press – Eswatini. Junior officers are expecting not less than E200 000 per officer on Phase II of the salary restructuring programme.
The officers said government must pay them their money, which would include other benefits backdated to 2014.
They have given government until the end of the month to implement Phase II of the salary restructuring programme.
The officers said they were past negotiation stages as they had been ignored for a long time.
This comes in light of recent events where the junior officers from the Royal Eswatini Police Service (REPS) and His Majesty’s Correctional Services (HMCS) marched to Cabinet offices to deliver a petition regarding the salary restructuring process.
Secretary General of the Royal Eswatini Police Service Staff Association, Sergeant Dumisile Khumalo, said this had become a matter of urgency as they had waited a long time for its implementation.
Khumalo said they were informed that Phase II would be subsequent and implemented but for the past eight years nothing had been done.
She said they do not want the four per cent cushion offered by government as they want the second phase of the salary restructuring process to be implemented with urgency.
Further, she said they also want an explanation on the announcement made by the ministry of finance, to the effect that government had set aside E65 million for the implementation of Phase II of Circular 2 of 2014.
“No one wants to entertain us but we are going to demand their attention,” Khumalo said.
She said they were not intimidated by the threats made by their superiors on a daily basis.
“We need the money with urgency, as we are suffering. Government must start paying to ensure that we receive what is due to us to avoid further confrontations,” she said.
She urged government to desist from dragging this matter as they were already suffering.
On the visit to the prime minister’s homestead, Khumalo said they meant to remind him about the plight of junior officers, adding that there would be a time when they would camp outside his homestead until they received their monies.
fighting
Another junior officer said they were prepared to lose their jobs for fighting for what belonged to them.
The officer said there would be a time when they would march with their families to show the world the plight faced by junior officers in the country.
He said they would never stop calling for salary restructuring and better working conditions for junior officers and that suspending them, would not mean anything as they are resolute on what they want.
Ministry of Public Service Principal Secretary, Sipho Tsabedze, said junior officers knew the channels to follow on this issue.
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