Boy! How KCC officials fleece us of our benefits!

SIR— We former workers of Kampala City Council retrenched in 1994 would like to express our discontent to the town clerk about the way our retrenchment top-up is handled by some Kampala City City officials and the leaders of the 1994 retrenched staff committee because what was resolved by the finance and administration committee is no longer being followed. The following is typical: - That payment of former workers names to be put in alphabetical order and to be paid accordingly. This is not followed nowadays; names are picked at random depending on one’s relationship with those shortlisting people to be paid! - As retrenches, we resolved that since our leaders might have incurred some costs during our struggle to make KCC pay our package difference, 15% rate deducted from our packages by KCC administration. But to our surprise besides that surcharge one to be put on the pay list a person has to pay between sh50,000 and sh100,000 to our leaders since they are the ones who hold the yam and the knife as well. And after getting your bank draft, by the time you reach the bank, you meet again our leaders waiting for you, demanding for money ranging from sh100,000 to sh200,000. - In essence, it is the leaders and some officials who are benefiting at the expense of the retrenchees. Names withheld on request