The government has revealed that by Thursday this week, distribution of cash relief packages will be done to mobile phones of the listed categories.
The Minister of Gender, Labour and Social Development, Betty Amongi explained to journalists at the Uganda Media Centre yesterday on 6th July that that payment had been delayed as a result of the process of updating and entering the data system of beneficiaries.
“Therefore, the delay in payment which should have begun today 6th July had been occasioned by some of those issues of data,“When we get this data from Kampala by end of this day, we will be able to reach 50% a total number of over 50% of the total targeted number that we expect.
By Wednesday 7th July morning, we expect that over 70% of the entries from across the country will have been uploaded onto the system.”said Amongi.