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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The government has released a list of the groups of people who will benefit from the Covid-19 relief cash.
While announcing the second lockdown to control the spread of Covid-19, President Yoweri Museveni said that his government was going to support vulnerable people whose income was interrupted by the lockdown.
The government resolved that instead of giving maize flour and beans to vulnerable people as it did in the first lockdown, they would give each beneficiary 100,000 Shillings that would be sent on their mobile phone numbers.
On Tuesday, the Minister of Gender, Labour and Social Development, Betty Amongi, whose ministry was tasked with identifying these vulnerable groups together with the Office of the Prime Minister released a list of the beneficiaries. According to the list, 13 categories of people have been identified for support.
These include bus/taxi drivers and conductors, baggage carriers, wheelbarrow pushers, touts, traffic guides and loaders in the taxi, bus parks and stages and other major commercial centres such as Kikuubo, barmen, djs, barmaids, waiters and bouncers, bar gym and restaurant workers, food vendors in bus, taxi parks and arcades, artists including musicians, comedians, producers and promoters, boda boda riders, special hire drivers and Uber drivers, saloons, massage parlour workers, teachers and support staff in private schools and teachers in government schools not on the government payroll and car washers.
Others are slum dwellers/ghetto residents, street vendors, shoe shiners and cobblers and orphans and vulnerable children. The exercise aims at reaching 501,107 beneficiaries.
Amongi says that those whose phone numbers are not registered in their names, their money will be given to them through Post Bank mobile vans. Amongi said her ministry will continue supporting workers until the government lifts all the Covid-19 restrictions. She called upon leaders at all levels to help in the identification of beneficiaries and ensure that they receive their relief money.
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So the government and these selfish parliamentarians pretend not to know that the very group has rent to pay
Where are the sports men and women in different associations we also need the relief
Will the posh and beans be cooked under sun heat do they think the 20k will cater for charcoal,sugar,salt etc as they wait for millions to buy luxury cars selfish parliamentarians
What about private security guards who earns 150000,are they not also going to recieve money,because they were not on the list.
We all need money let them send money to all of us we have spent one and half a year with out working
Why is money not reaching us?
We should learn how work with presence of covid because its to stay. Therefore after this 42 days of lockdown let’s go back and work. Vaccination will be done as we’re working since the vaccine can take more 2months with out reaching the country. We teachers we have suffered more yet we are essential workers to our family as you said. Please. Help us
why not to give that money to all the citizen because we whole suffer with lockdown