Ofwono Opondo is known for defending anything government but not the recent move by Ministry of Health to purchase cars instead of Personal Protective Equipment PPE.

Ministry of Health last month shipped in a fleet of the 282 double cabin pickups purchased from the COVID-19 response donation funds are in country.

The ministry said then that the pickups were purchased at a tune of UGX 23.9Bn and will be used for surveillance, transportation of laboratory samples and follow ups.

In a tweet, the ministry stated: “To-date, 121 vehicles have been delivered while the rest are in transit and will be in-country soon.”

The ministry revealed that President Yoweri Museveni approved of the purchases: “The National Covid-19 Response Fund Donations Committee with guidance from H.E. The President of Uganda, approved the use of the UGX 29.6 billion as follows; UGX 23.9 bn for purchase of 282 pickups (double cabin) for disease surveillance and laboratory follow up.”

And further stated: “The vehicles will be distributed to all districts. This was done because the country lacked vehicles for surveillance and transportation of samples and the WHO spent enormously on hiring vehicles which was not sustainable.”

However, Uganda Media Centre Executive Director, Ofwono Opondo, while appearing on NBS TV political show ‘Frontline’ disagreed with the President and the people at ministry of health.

Ofwono Opondo blasted: “You did not perhaps have to spend the money on vehicles because government vehicles have been packed, they would have been used to monitor, and the money should have been used for PPEs.”

Abraham@Abrahamlyon1: I have not heard OO speak truth in a while..he sounds redeemed today however what happens next after the report

Atwine Nicholas@atwinen For once your not defending your party, like the way your looking at things.

Ofwono Opondo raged: “If you are close to State House, you have more reason to do better work not to shame the President. Since when did we begin to have MPs buying ambulances? Some of them don’t even pass for ambulances. We in the government went to sleep.”

Ofwono Opondo stated: “I didn’t get anything that shocked me from the report because of the things I do every day. What is good is that a team at Parliament has put everything in chronological form. It is an indictment on the health sector.”

He summed it up: “It is important to look at case by case. I don’t want you to say State House is synonymous with incompetence. I asked the Ministry of Health whether the vaccines we received last weekend have been dispatched, they told me they are still planning how to.”