Prime Minister Robinah Nabbanja has asked properly-off Ugandans to donate extra money to the countrywide COVID-19 assignment force.
Appearing on NBS Eagle, Sunday nighttime, Nabbanja said that government desires more fingers to include the second one wave of the pandemic.
The top minister stated that every one the money that become contributed at some point of the first wave of the pandemic became placed to its use, and Ugandans need now not worry approximately duty.
“We ask Ugandans to offer us extra money because for sure the money you contributed turned into not misappropriated,” Nabbanja said.
“We have paid all of the medics who had been worrying us. I ask the Ministry of Health to interrupt down for Ugandans how the cash became used.”
Nabbanja’s call for extra cash comes at a time while several sections of the public are still worrying duty of the over Shs 29 billion that become accumulated in the first lockdown.
Several media reviews have additionally carried testimonies of medical examiners crying out to the government over insufficient Personal Protective Equipment (PPEs) however Nabbanja said that every one isn't always authentic.
“I haven’t been to Mulago and determined a medic with out PPEs, even Kiruddu. It is the media complaining.”
Nabbanja stated that each one the cash that Ugandans will make a contribution this time will pass into shopping for COVID-19 vaccinations, as government plans to vaccinate as a minimum 50 percentage of the populace by way of December this yr.
Asked about what she thinks approximately the voices from the general public which claim that the cash contributed remaining year changed into eaten, Nabbanja said this is an insult to them.
“Don’t insult me, such words make us lose morale to work. Ugandans must be grateful to the ones working difficult,” Nabbanja stated.
“If a person has stolen cash for positive, there may be auditing, it doesn’t want the public to say first.”
Nabbanja said that the media and Ugandans at massive need to prevent the blame game because Uganda isn't one of a kind from countries like America and Europe that were additionally crushed by means of the pandemic.
She said many peoples contributed to COVID-19, a few gave them coins and they decided to shop for automobiles for all districts.
“We ordered for the motors from Japan and they are coming, some have arrived,” the top minister stated.
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