I would like to use this chance to thank the government's effort in trying to control the spread of Covid-19 at a time Uganda has 45 confirmed cases, by the time of writing this. There will surely be more cases.
Your Excellency, Ministry of Health officials, the UPDF police, and other security agencies have done a tremendous
A day later, the ministry of works and transport and Security designed a measure where all people in the above categories are supposed to move with stickers.
On Thursday 2nd April 2020, the security ministry came up with other measures, key among them - JOURNALISTS ARE NOT CONSIDERED ESSENTIAL PEOPLE BEYOND 7PM.
This means whoever did not watch the live presser, would miss out on that important message. In the fight against this deadly virus, government needs the media more than ever.
When you subject the journalists to sleeping in newsrooms and then call them for press briefing the next day,it is not fair at all.
Now, the curfew came and found us, running news bulletins for 7pm and 9pm. Many times,
Let me also say that as you keep out the media beyond 7pm, these are some of the challenges that the men in uniform you have put on the roads to effect the curfew go through.
3. Some people are driving into Kampala using letters from RDCs of other different districts. You have not yet fixed that gap.
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Finally, fighting Covid-19 without the media is as bad as a small leak into a mighty ship.