Ugandan teachers have gone on a strike all across the country to show their protest against the government’s failure to meet their demands of 20 percent pay rise, Press TV reports.

"We are not going to class from today (Monday) and that’s the position of all teachers across the country," secretary-general of the Uganda National Teachers’ Union (UNATU), James Tweheyo said on Monday.

According to the UNATU, the Ugandan government had earlier vowed to increase teachers’ salaries in three phases beginning with a 15 percent last fiscal year, 20 percent during this fiscal year and another 15 percent in the next year.

However, the ruling government failed to fulfil the 20 percent pay rise of the current fiscal year, saying the country’s national treasury is unable to meet the teachers’ demands due to Western donors’ last year aid cut, following corruption allegations.

The Uganda National Teachers’ Union also accused the government of breaching the earlier agreement on 20 percent pay rise this year, saying the teachers would keep on strike until their demands are met by the government.

Uganda’s education sector is known as the lowest state sectors, with 160,000 teachers being among the worst paid public laborers in the East African country.

This is while the country’s national assembly has pledged to take necessary measures to provide the demanded pay increase for the teachers.

"There are consultations going on right now at the ministerial level ... but it’s not possible to meet that demand now," the spokesman of the government Ofwono Opondo said.