KCCA lacks funding for Covid-19 response in Kampala, says Lukwago
Lukwago's anxiety follows the 42-day lockdown reported by President Museveni on June 18.
Kampala Lord Mayor, Erias Lukwago, has raised apprehensions of difficult stretches ahead for the city tenants on the grounds that KCCA needs more assets to execute President Museveni’s Covid-19 orders.
Lukwago offered the comments not long after requiring a crisis chief gathering to discover answers for the expanding requests of individuals in the city.
“You heard Mr. Museveni saying that KCCA is entrusted with the administration of the circumstance in Kampala, the social financial emergency caused as was well as the battle against the pandemic and we have no spending plan for it by any means. We don’t have even a solitary coin to manage that so that is dangerous,”said Lukwago.
He noticed that there was need for an appropriate arranging before the establishment of complete lockdown adding that weak gatherings of individuals were not thought of.
“It was stupid, even at first you heard himself [Museveni]… really he had blended sentiments about it and the manner in which he reported the mandates, he was not entirely certain about the thing he was doing on the grounds that he didn’t carry out the actions that will be taken during this time of all out lockdown, which is risky,” he said.
Lukwago’s anxiety follows the 42-day lockdown reported by President Museveni on June 18.
He told the media that they have likewise cooperated with the Red Cross Society to give crisis administrations, especially clearing of the suspected Covid-19 cases and dead bodies and those experiencing different infirmities.
“We picked the body of a suspected Covid-19 casualty that has been lying in a muzigo in Bulwa zone, Wakaliga, for two days. We settled on frenzied decisions to the RCC of Kampala Mr. Hudu Hussein, who heads the Covid-19 team for Kampala and the metropolitan region, the police and other important specialists however to no end, “he said
Lukwago noticed that at present, KCCA has got five ambulances, two of which are broken adding that with the help of good samaritans they are probably going to pool around 18 ambulances to manage the terrible circumstance.
