Permanent Secretary Hajii Yunus Kakande (pictured second right-hand side) speaks to Florence Alanyo (in the middle) the Assistant Resident District Commissioner for Gulu District from Bomah Hotel on November 5,2025-Photo By SimThe government has moved to rise salaries of the Resident District Commissioners (RDCs) to 9 million shillings from the current 2.2 million shillings per month.Uganda currently has a total of 146 Residents District Commissioners, 163 Deputies and about 300 of their Assistants serving across the various districts, municipalities and the cities.On the salary structure for the 2025/2026 financial year signed by the Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Public Service, the government allocated 8.55 trillion for the wedge bill.The enhancement of salaries for Chief Administrative Officers, City Town Clerks, Municipal Town Clerks Under-secretaries and Resident District Commissioners was allocated 57 billion.Hajji Yunus Kakande, the Permanent Secretary to the Office of the President told Uganda Radio Network that the pay rise to the Resident District Commissioners will commence in 2026/2027.He revealed that the President has already established the Committee to look into the RDCs’ pay and will make proposal to the cabinet to pass the resolution.Kakande noted that the Commissioners have been complaining about their meagre pay, but starting next financial year, their pay will be increase. “They were complaining of poor pay…already the President had put the Committee which will look into their pay and am sure by next financial year this Committee will make proposal to the cabinet who will pass it,” Kakande told our reporter.He adds that currently they are getting very little money at 817,000 (referring to Assistant RDCs) then you tax it to 600,000 or 500,000 something. They are getting no good money!”The Resident District Commissioners currently earn 2.29 million, their Deputies 1.28 million with their Assistants getting 817,000 shillings according to the Ministry of Public Service.Once approved, the government will have to spend more than 15 trillion shillings to maintain the wedge bill of the Resident District Commissioners, Deputies and their Assistant each year.The Head of Secretariat for RDCs in the Office of the President Maj. Martha Asiimwe says that the Commissioners have for long battled the merger pay amidst their overwhelming tasks.She adds: “the President has already blessed them and they will get what can support them. They monitor government projects yet can’t afford to send some of their children to school.”The Commissioner in Charge of RDCs for Northern Uganda, Alice Akello Opio has urged the Commissioners to stick to their mandate of monitoring government programs.Akello argued that without monitoring, most of the government projects intended for community livelihood support and developments will go to waste.The Resident District Commissioners derive their role from Article 203 of the Uganda 1995 Constitution and the Local Government Act 1997.Their primary duties are representing the President in their administrative areas; monitoring the government projects; fighting corruption; maintaining security.-URNThe post Gov’t Moves To Increase RDCs’ Salaries To UGX9M appeared first on Business Focus.