PM Nabbanja Squeezed

Prime Minister Robinah Nabbanja is on the spot over the methodology used in the registration of beneficiaries for her Ka relief cash from the government.

Legislators have questioned the ‘selective criteria ‘used in identifying and registering vulnerable persons.

They accuse the Office of the Prime Minister of hiccups and lack of authenticity in the registration saying this has sidelined the actual beneficiaries.

PM Nabbanja Squeezed

During the plenary, a section of MP’s said many needy Ugandans have not benefited because they are not registered in the data system.

Kilak county mp Olanya Gilbert says the 1st beneficiary of the relief cash announced at the OPM didn’t register through the recommended channels.

”When we investigated, we realized that person ‘Godfrey Oloyah’ was not registered by the LC 1 or the normal process. He said he was taken and directly registered in the office of the RDC, there is a problem with this money ”because the majority of the beneficiaries are NRM Cardres ”Olanya said

”The prime minister has continuously misled this country, playing with the psychology of the people of Uganda, and Kampala in particular that she has been giving out money to these people. ”Ronald Balimwezo-Nakawa East MP

”In the Kampala metropolitan area, many people were left out even when their means of livelihood were cut off.The classification of Municipalities and town councils is an artificial one that has no correlation with survival means and mechanisms.”Busiro East Mp Medard Segona

So far, the government has confirmed that 154,702 individuals have received mobile money messages with 100,000 shillings.

However,Nabbanja has been tasked by parliament to present a report on the relief cash by Wednesday next week.

Nabbanjja however says it’s difficult to divulge details of beneficiaries to the public for verification because this will infringe on people’s right to privacy.

The deputy speaker of Parliament Anite Amongi at Wednesday’s plenary postponed Nabbanja’s report presentation to next week on grounds that she delayed delivering copies to MP’s in time.

Meanwhile deadline for disbursement of funds to vulnerable groups has been pushed to Friday.