Gov’t yet to disburse UGX 1.4Bn relief cash

1.4 Billion Shillings is yet to be dispensed to weak individuals as Covid-19 help cash.

This was uncovered by Julius Kakeeto, the Post Bank Chief Executive Officer and the Executive Director Andrew Kabeera on Friday while showing up before the joint parliamentary group, containing the Public and Local Government Accounts councils.

The boards of trustees were entrusted to audit a rundown of recipients of the COVID-19 money, which was postponed before parliament by Prime Minister Robinah Nabbanja last month. Under the drive, the public authority has been circulating 100,000 Shillings to chose individuals named defenseless during the 42-day lockdown.

The recipients were distinguished from gatherings of individuals that rely upon day by day income in Kampala, urban communities and regions the nation over. They included transport or cabbies, conductors, things transporters, handcart pushers, promotes, traffic guides, barmen, DJs, barmaids, servers and bouncers, bar, rec center and café laborers, boda riders, unique recruit drivers and Uber drivers, salons, knead parlor laborers, educators and others.

As indicated by the Ministry of Finance, 53.5 billion Shillings was supported as COVID-19 crisis subsidizing to cover 501,107 designated recipients. Yet, out of this, an aggregate of 2.854 billion Shillings was gone through on regulatory expenses including portable cash move costs and the leftover amount of 50.645 billion Shillings was moved to the Ministry of Gender account in Post Bank to work with direct exchanges to the chose recipients. Kabeera says that Post Bank got 488,272 exchanges from the Ministry of Gender and they effectively prepared 487,307 utilizing the stages for MTN and Airtel, however 965 exchanges fizzled.

Sarah Opendi, the Tororo Woman MP found out if the bank actually has cash to disperse or it had shut exchanges. She additionally asked authorities from Post Bank to disclose what planned to happen to the 965 bombed exchanges.

Accordingly, Kakeeto affirmed that they actually have 1.4 billion Shillings on the record.

“We have cash on the record for Ministry of Gender, regardless of whether it will be for paying out, or whether it is for their tasks or whether it is for taking care of certain expense… we don’t have the foggiest idea. We can’t remark on that however we have an equilibrium of 1.433 billion. It’s perched on the record. Out of what we got totalling 52.371 billion,” said Kakeeto.

Kakeeto and Kabeera said that they are sitting tight for extra directions from the Ministry of Gender in regards to the equilibrium.

As to 965 bombed exchanges, Post Bank said that telecom organizations are better positioned to reply.

“We can allow Telecoms to react to that however the example is there are those which might be obstructed for various reasons which we may not know. Be that as it may, I figure the Telecoms would know on the grounds that the disappointment comes from their framework,” said Kabeera.

Andrew Rugamba, the MTN Mobile Money CEO said that a few numbers didn’t exist on the organization and along these lines exchanges couldn’t be made.