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The COVID19 taskforce has now embarked on identifying who the affected vulnerable persons are during the second lockdown.
“We shall communicate details in the course of the week,” said Prime Minister Robinah Nabbanja.
She was Sunday joined by Vice President HE Jessica Alupo, Deputy Prime Ministers Gen Moses Ali and Rukiah Nakadama during the National Taskforce on Covid 19 meeting at the Office of the Prime Minister (OPM) Main Conference Hall.
The objective of the meeting was to quickly implement the guidelines issued by President Museveni.
After the Covid_19 Taskforce meeting, she said:” We have agreed and decided that any support that will be provided to the persons most affected by the lockdown measures will be through cash tokens and not physical food distribution.”
They agreed that the COVID-19 relief token to vulnerable groups be sent through their respective Mobile Money numbers.
The meeting“We have agreed that funds will be quickly found to boost acquisition of medical oxygen to support Covid19 patients.”
The Center for Law and Emerging Economies said in a tweet that distributing relief via mobile money would be efficient if done fairly.
“Cash relief distribution via Mobile Money would be efficient, cost and time saving but has 2 drawbacks: 1. Assumes fairness and transparency in selection criteria of beneficiaries; 2. Assumes all beneficiaries have both MM registered line and NIN. These are big assumptions.”
During the first lockdown in April last year, the government distributed food to vulnerable groups of up to 1.5 million people in areas of Kampala and Wakiso.
Official figures from the Office of the Prime Minister show that at least 855, 281 residents in Kampala who desperately need food were served.
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