Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) through the party's deputy secretary Harold Kaija has said that by proposing to pay science teachers more, President Museveni wants to ‘hurt’ arts teachers in order to discourage humanities, and rule over a country that cannot think.
Last week while addressing teachesr at the National Teachers' Day at Kololo, President Museveni announced that there will be no salary increment for teachers who teach humanities as government wants to adopt a science-led strategy.
Museveni argued that the country quickly needs medicines, items of transport and building materials not storytelling and philosophy.
Kaija said this while addressing the press earlier today. "Museveni knows that when people study humanities, their minds are opened to think and challenge atrocities, which he (Museveni) does not want.
“In a nutshell, he does not want reasoning, he wants people who cannot think, he wants to make them green like robots because then a robot can be fed information through a computer,” Kaija said.
According to Kija, Museveni’s ‘war’ on arts and reasoning started from way back, when he banned civic education in primary schools, and political education from secondary and tertiary institutions.
“We hear that he now wants to do away with philosophy, because this deals with how people think and Museveni does not want that,” Kaija added.
Kaija said that if Museveni was so much interested in sciences like he claims, then KCCA councillors would not be earning more than doctors.
“In UNRA, the boss who is not a scientist earns a good salary of Shs 30 plus million, the directors who are scientists earn Shs 25 million, station engineers earn Shs 6 million,” Kaija argued.
