Lira City.
By: Lango Broadcasting Services (LBS) Radio Editorial
The Resident City Commissioner of Lira, Lawrence Egole has revealed that 70 percent of the potential beneficiaries of covid-19 government relief fund to the vulnerable communities have so far been identified and registered in Lira City.
On Thursday, Prime Minister Rt Hon Robbinah Nabanja launched the government relief fund program in which a total of 53,000 received the money in the first cohorts of beneficiaries.
Speaking to Lango Broadcasting Service (LBS) Radio in an exclusive interview Friday afternoon at his offices in Lira City Council headquarters, Egole noted that the team leading the identification and registration of the beneficiaries have made huge strides and achieved up to 70% of the total threshold required by the Ministry of Gender ,Labour and Social Development by close of business Thursday.
According to the Ministry of Gender ,Labour and Social development, distribution quarters given to cities and municipalities across the country, Lira City is required to submit a total of 9500 names of vulnerable persons whose jobs have been deeply affected by the recent government measures to contain the spread of covid-19.
Photo: Lira City Council Headquarters.Photo LBS
In Lira City, the team registering and verifying details of the particulars are being led by the City Principal Community Development Officer Tom Richard Okello.
Egole says he expects the team to complete the work by Thursday to beat the set dateline and have the names submitted before Saturday 10th July 2021.
According to the RCC, the City is facing two big challenges ie, authenticating the vulnerable persons as many of them do not have national identification cards and a large number of the people who are overwhelming the team to be considered and registered.
In Lira City, Boda Boda remains the biggest category of vulnerable groups topping the list followed by the blockers amongst others.
At the moment Egole says the security team is engulfed in verifying and securitization of the registered names to ensure they are authentic and that the names match with the names in the national identification cards.
On June 6, Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni imposed a nationwide total lockdown for 42 days to combat and control the spread of the virus. As of Thursday according to the Ministry of Health the country had registered 85,581 infections with 58,686 recoveries and 2,033 deaths. At least 1,027,036 people have so far been vaccinated against the virus
