{"id":6219,"date":"2025-12-19T00:27:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T00:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kingumurundifreedom.org\/en\/?p=6219"},"modified":"2026-01-15T00:37:02","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T00:37:02","slug":"otb-faces-governance-crisis-executives-award-themselves-exorbitant-salaries-while-employees-await-pay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kingumurundifreedom.org\/en\/otb-faces-governance-crisis-executives-award-themselves-exorbitant-salaries-while-employees-await-pay\/","title":{"rendered":"OTB Faces Governance Crisis: Executives Award Themselves Exorbitant Salaries While Employees Await Pay – Part 2"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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As the Office du Th\u00e9 du Burundi (OTB) faces a worsening financial crisis, new revelations expose shocking and unequal internal practices. Our organization has uncovered a dramatic rise in executive salaries amid ongoing budgetary and social turmoil.<\/p>

\ud83d\udd36\ufe0f Salary Increases of 233% to 300%, Decided Unilaterally<\/strong><\/p>

Since October 2025, top officials at OTB \u2014 starting with Director General Engineer Gilles Mukundwa \u2014 have granted themselves massive pay raises. These increases, ranging from +233% to +300%, were made without transparency or consultation with internal oversight bodies.<\/p>

The most glaring case is that of the Director General himself: his salary rose from 1,000,000 FBu to 4,000,000 FBu \u2014 a 300% increase.<\/p>

Other executives, such as regional factory heads, saw their monthly salaries increase from 900,000 FBu to 3,000,000 FBu, representing a 233.33% hike.<\/p>

\ud83d\udd36\ufe0f Employees in Distress: Unpaid Salaries and Years of Stagnation<\/strong><\/p>

Meanwhile, lower-level staff \u2014 including laborers, technicians, and support personnel \u2014 have yet to receive their salaries for November 2025. Some employees report that their wages have been frozen for over a decade, despite worsening working conditions.<\/p>

More concerning, they have received no bonuses or salary adjustments, unlike the executives. Many employees who have served OTB for over 20 years still earn less than 1,000,000 FBu per month.<\/p>

This highlights a deepening divide in income and governance at a public institution vital to Burundi\u2019s economy. Further investigations are ongoing.<\/p>

\ud83d\udd36\ufe0f A Two-Tier Salary Policy<\/strong><\/p>

These practices reveal a highly unbalanced approach to human resource management, where a small group of executives enjoys unjustified privileges while the majority of employees live under financial strain. This growing wage gap, deepened in the midst of a crisis, is eroding staff morale and weakening the overall productivity of the institution.<\/p>

\ud83d\udd36\ufe0f Call for an Independent Investigation<\/strong><\/p>

In light of this unjust and unsustainable situation, voices within OTB are rising to demand accountability. The organization King Umurundi Freedom joins these calls and urges the immediate launch of an independent investigation to fully uncover the truth about OTB\u2019s salary policies, their budgetary impact, and the responsibility of the leadership.<\/p>

This report is the second part of our investigative series on internal dysfunctions at OTB. The first installment, focused on irregular public contracts and overbilling, is available here: OTB in Crisis: Millions of Francs Disappear Amid Financial Opacity \u2013 KUF-ASBL<\/a><\/p>

More revelations to follow in our upcoming third part.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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As the Office du Th\u00e9 du Burundi (OTB) faces a worsening financial crisis, new revelations expose shocking and unequal internal practices. Our organization has uncovered a dramatic rise in executive salaries amid ongoing budgetary and social turmoil. \ud83d\udd36\ufe0f Salary Increases of 233% to 300%, Decided Unilaterally Since October 2025, top officials at OTB \u2014 starting […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6220,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,8],"tags":[64,65,53],"class_list":["post-6219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-corruption-and-economic-impoverishment-news","category-news","tag-corruption","tag-gilles-mukundwa","tag-otb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kingumurundifreedom.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kingumurundifreedom.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kingumurundifreedom.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kingumurundifreedom.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kingumurundifreedom.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6219"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/kingumurundifreedom.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6219\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6229,"href":"https:\/\/kingumurundifreedom.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6219\/revisions\/6229"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kingumurundifreedom.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kingumurundifreedom.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kingumurundifreedom.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kingumurundifreedom.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}