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But residents of cell B and A in Ishaka Municipality say that instead of getting the food at no cost, many of them are forced to pay for it. Joan Tumwebaze, the Vice-Chairperson of Cell B said that she bought two 5-kilogram bags of maize flour at 10,000 Shillings, even when the bags were branded with particulars of Hajji Basajjabalaba, who donated them to the taskforce.
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The Ishaka district COVID-19 taskforce
has been accused of selling relief food to residents who are supposed to get it
at no cost. The task force has received more than 60 tons of food for
distribution to people whose livelihoods were disrupted by measures to control
the spread of coronavirus disease (COVID-19).
But residents of cell B and A in
Ishaka Municipality say that instead of getting the food at no cost, many of
them are forced to pay for it. Joan Tumwebaze, the Vice-Chairperson of Cell B
said that she bought two 5-kilogram bags of maize flour at 10,000 Shillings,
even when the bags were branded with particulars of Hajji Basajjabalaba, who
donated them to the taskforce.
Residents say that the leaders
have failed to use proper avenues to distribute maize flour to people who are
now desperately paying for it.
//Cue in; “twine obusasi bwingi…
Cue out…bakabuteka okwe bakabuguza.”//
Aidah Tugabirwe, a resident of
cell A in Ishaka says that she recently bought 15 kilograms of maize flour at 7,000
Shillings and 5 kilograms of beans at 4,000 Shillings. She said that she has
never received any free distributed food.
Irene Ayebazibwe, a saloon owner
in Ishaka park said that the process of distributing relief food is not well alligned.
//Cue in; “obuhunga butweire
burikweija…
Cue out…kubi nyowe
kakugambire.”//
Kellen Atuhaire, the Chairperson of
Ishaka saloon owners said that those distributing relief food have not
considered saloon owners who are badly off and need consideration.
//Cue in; “noyija oba mpira…
Cue out…yitu ebire etyo.”//
Bushenyi District COVID-19 Taskforce
chairperson Jolly Tibemanya denied any idea of selling relief food but accused village
chairpersons of delaying the distribution and trying to involve politics in the
relief food distribution. He said a one Karuhanga, chairperson LCI Mazinga
cell, Nyakabirizi Division, was arrested for refusing to give food to
supporters of Hajj Hasan Basajabalaba.
