The powerful opposition establishment has appealed the regime to hastily close all national borders as a measure to curtail the entry of Truck Drivers from neighbouring states, who continue to be a threat to the local communities.
So far, 188 positive truck drivers are among the 248 confirmed infections in Uganda.
In the recent past, Uganda recorded the highest total number of new cases of Coronavirus virus after 43 drivers tested positive.
Now the Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) president Patrick Oboi Amuriat has asked government to consider shutting all borders.
“The fight against coronavirus is being frustrated by the failure of the Kampala administration to act in a manner that the lives of citizens are taken as a priority ahead of anything else including the economy,” Amuriat said in a statement released Monday.
He adds: “To date, a majority of the cases of COVID-19 that the country has suffered were imported first through Entebbe International Airport when the authorities failed to act swiftly to close that point of entry, and then later and still ongoing through truck drivers crossing into our territory.”
Ugandans have paid heavily through having to shutdown their businesses and other means of income bringing, misery and serious social disruption to their lives.
FDC believeS that this insistence by President Museveni to keep the trucks and therefore COVID -19 coming into the country is out of self interest and apart from financial accountability, is the greatest failure in the country’s fight against COVID -19.
“We would like to demand that in order to safeguard the lives of Ugandans which should be the priority of any sensible government, all Uganda borders’ crossings be closed with immediate effect, until further notice. If this does not happen, then it would be right for Ugandan citizens to disrupt and cause the stoppage of this movement on their own accord, in order to safeguard their own lives,” he said.
