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Unfortunately, public transport was halted by the president for 42 days. Obviously, there is no way they can go to their home places right now until the public transport is opened.
The point of these MPs is that right now, their people have nothing to eat and yet it’s easy to get food in the villages. They say, the 42 days were undermined and now people have nothing to eat.
Right now, people are mounting pressure on their legislators to help them out because they don’t even have jobs. This is why legislators have in turn cried out to the government to help their people.
More to this, the MPs have asked for government’s involvement in the payment of loans people got from the bank. The president didn’t say anything about this in his last speech.
Some people even in this period have lost their property to the banks due to loans but unfortunately no one is speaking for them. Some private school owners last week were in the media as well asking government to speak to banks about taking over their schools.
The legislators expressed concern as well on the issue of money from the government to the vulnerable people.
Their query is why is it that the government only considered those in Kampala and yet even in the villages, people are suffering. According to them, this is very unfair.
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