What UNRA mass restructuring will cost the taxpayer

The ongoing mass restructuring at the Uganda National Roads Authority (UNRA) is expected to bring reforms and improve efficiency but the exercise comes with a huge cost to the taxpayer.

The authority seeks to nearly double the staff numbers and put in place a new salary structure that can compete in the market. Besides 80 senior managers who were sacked in June, another 890 staff were given notice of collective termination at the end of September. But the latter were told to reapply as the authority seeks to clean up and build a robust team of 1,736 staff.