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COVID-19 CRISIS: Music promoter Bajjo arrested for protesting over delayed distribution of Covid-19 food

CONRAD AHABWE | PML Daily Senior Correspondent by CONRAD AHABWE | PML Daily Senior Correspondent
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Events Promoter Bajjo being arrested (PHOTO/File).

KAMPALA – Music promoter Andrew Mukasa alias Bajjo was on Wednesday, May 6, 2020 arrested for protesting over what he called “sluggish” food distribution exercise in Kampala and Wakiso.

Mr Mukasa who recently donated two tonnes of maize flour to the National COVID-19 Response Fund said many Ugandans affected by the virus-induced lockdown are starving yet government has not done enough to help them.

He was arrested as he attempted to enter the Office of the Prime Minister with two others and taken to Central Police Station in Kampala.

At the start of the lockdown over coronavirus in March, President Museveni announced that government would distribute food to 1.5 million Ugandans adversely affected by the closure of business.

However, to date many people are yet to receive the food.

On Tuesday, May 5, 2020, Speaker of Parliament Rebecca Kadaga directed government present to the House a status report on the ongoing distribution of food to the 1.5m people that were targeted in Kampala and Wakiso district in the wake of the lockdown imposed over covid-19 outbreak.

Parliament on April 8 passed a Shs284b Supplementary Budget to help the Ministry of Health and other Ministries in responding to covid-19. The package included Shs59b to the Office of the Prime Minister to procure food to supply to what government described as vulnerable poor whose daily income had been curtailed by the lockdown.

“Government owes us an explanation on how far we have gone (on the distribution of food). We need an answer as soon as possible” the Speaker directed before adjourning the House.

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