Uganda is taking the lead in the fight against the deadly Covid-19.

The country has 79 cases to-date and no fatalities.

The country’s detailed approach to the fight against Covid-19, has been appreciated by citizens.

The swift move by President Yoweri Museveni to shut the airport and the borders, attracted applause.

The works of minister Dr. Jane Ruth Aceng and her battles at the airport to have returnees quarantined did not go unnoticed.

Then the likes of Dr. Diana Atwine and doctors in the various hospitals across the country have been the talk of town.

Other the cases the country registered from the returning citizens and some foreign nationals, Uganda has continued to register cases from the neighbouring Tanzania and Kenya.

Politics, Money and electioneering

The composition of the Covid-19 task force did not appease legislators.

They argued that the task force favoured their rivals on the ground. Being an electioneering year, the legislators want to be part of the team giving out food and helping out with essential goods.

Attempts to block the food distribution in Kampala did not materialize after cabinet approved of the exercise.

With the year wearing away, this Covid-19 lock down presented the best possible opportunity for the political class to seduce the voters.

Every voter is at their door step and so who wouldn’t want to leverage from this?

Legislators raised an alarm to the speaker about their rivals who were already on the ground taking advantage of the lock down to distribute food, sugar and other essentials.

Some of their rivals mostly at district level were accommodated into the district task force.

MPs and Kadaga were at the stage of passing Shs304Bn supplementary for the national task force when they cooked up the idea of facilitation came up. Shs10Bn was reserved for MPs .

They know their rivals were going to tap into the food and other essentials bought by government to push their campaign.

Kadaga has been bitter with the executive because she knows they were supposed to come to her rescue after letting the supplementing slip through without debate.

Even the opposition who were known for raising dust on every item had their eyes and ears turned away.

Ibrahim Ssemujju Nganda, Betty Nambooze and a host of others badly wanted the money to push their obligations of feeding their constituencies.

The money was not meant for the national task force as the President said. MPs allocated to themselves the money to battle their rivals.

MPs have set a bar higher in their constituencies. They are the providers of everything for their people. People rush to them for Food, burial, roads, money and school fees.

Most of them found themselves with more than the mouth absorbs. The Shs20M cashed into their accounts came at the most significant time.

And they could not just withdraw and return it or hand it to the district Covid-19 task force.