The National COVID-19 Task Force set up by President Yoweri Museveni has recommended that government through the Ministry of Finance should use the Direct Payment Methods (DPM) to give assistance (money) to the vulnerable groups during the 42 day \u2013nationwide lockdown.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Addressing a press conference this evening , the new Prime Minister designate , Robinah Nabbanja said that tomorrow government will come up with a list of people who will receive money through the Direct Payment Method after President Museveni directed that the needy Ugandans should be supported with food during the lockdown .<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Although many social workers welcomed the idea to give the relief aid directly to the needy people , they \u00a0questioned how government will identify such vulnerable groups spread across the country without an authentic data bank about the welfare of all\u00a0 45 million Ugandans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThere is going to be a serious challenge on how the vulnerable people will be identified because in Uganda there is no available data for such identification. They can do it through the LC system but there are also issues of corruption and discrimination at those lower levels ,\u201d a social worker who declined to be named but who has worked with the poor communities stated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cHope government will figure out how to deal with those real issues when sending money . But we are very happy that government has taken the strong-bold stand to eliminate civil servants who are largely corrupt out of this process. It is our prayer that this new cabinet -continues with these new innovative methods to ensure that civil servants and service providers don\u2019t steal money meant to help improve the wellbeing of Ugandans at all levels ,\u201d they added .<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The national Covid-19 Task Force is coordinating the government response against the rampaging pandemic that has left more than 500 Ugandans dead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Task Force also recommended that Local Governments should be authorized to utilize the available resources to ensure the lockdown is implemented without hurting Ugandans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Ministry of Health it was recommended should provide the number of health workers to be recruited urgently and utilise the 7bn earmarked by Ministry of finance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It was further recommended that all government communication to the Public about Covid related matters and other government programs should be done through the Ministry of ICT led by Dr. Chris Baryomunsi .<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Essential workers will apply for car stickers online and will be issued by the Ministry of works.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The National COVID-19 Task Force set up by President Yoweri Museveni has recommended that government through the Ministry of Finance<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3467,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/prowebinhost.com\/anzu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/pm-robinah-nabbanja.jpg","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4426,"url":"https:\/\/prowebinhost.com\/anzu\/ugandans-celebrate-as-president-museveni-assures-country-about-lifting-covid-19-lockdown-in-january-2022\/","url_meta":{"origin":3494,"position":0},"title":"UGANDANS CELEBRATE AS PRESIDENT MUSEVENI ASSURES COUNTRY ABOUT LIFTING COVID -19 LOCKDOWN IN JANUARY 2022","author":"UgandaUpdate","date":"October 29, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"Ugandans who have suffered economic meltdown due to a two year Covid -19 \u00a0lockdown celebrated last night when President Yoweri Museveni assured the country that whatever the circumstances-whether the citizenry have vaccinated or not \u2013he will reopen the economy by January 2022.The Commander in Chief\u00a0 in his live broadcast to\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Economy"","block_context":{"text":"Economy","link":"https:\/\/prowebinhost.com\/anzu\/category\/economy\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/prowebinhost.com\/anzu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/pp04pix-data.jpg","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/prowebinhost.com\/anzu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/pp04pix-data.jpg 1x, https:\/\/prowebinhost.com\/anzu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/pp04pix-data.jpg 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":1079,"url":"https:\/\/prowebinhost.com\/anzu\/uganda-will-ease-covid-19-lockdown-from-may-6-2020-president-museveni\/","url_meta":{"origin":3494,"position":1},"title":"UGANDA WILL EASE COVID-19 LOCKDOWN FROM MAY 6 2020- PRESIDENT MUSEVENI","author":"UgandaUpdate","date":"April 14, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"President Yoweri Museveni has assured the country that the tough health measures which were introduced by the government more than a month ago to contain the spread of the Covid-19 pandemic will be eased systematically with effect from May 6, 2020. 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