{"id":24649,"date":"2021-06-20T18:21:02","date_gmt":"2021-06-20T15:21:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/?p=24649"},"modified":"2021-06-20T18:21:05","modified_gmt":"2021-06-20T15:21:05","slug":"govt-to-give-mobile-money-instead-of-food-to-vulnerable-pm-nabbanja","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/2021\/06\/20\/govt-to-give-mobile-money-instead-of-food-to-vulnerable-pm-nabbanja\/","title":{"rendered":"Gov&#8217;t To Give Mobile Money Instead of Food To Vulnerable &#8211; PM Nabbanja"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Prime Minister Robinah Nabbanja has revealed that government will give cash handouts instead of food to the vulnerable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">While announcing a total lockdown on Friday evening, President Yoweri Museveni said the Premier and the National COVID-19 task force would work out modalities to help the most vulnerable people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;We have decided that any support that will be provided to the persons most affected by the lockdown will be through cash tokens and not physical food distribution,&#8221; Prime Minister Robinah Nabbanja said in Sunday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She was addressing the press after the task force sat to harmonise efforts to implement the lockdown measures put in place to control the spread of COVID-19.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Last year, the government gave out food to Kampala and Wakiso District residents when the first lockdown qas announced.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Nabbanja said the cash will be given through Mobile Money.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Prime Minister Robinah Nabbanja has revealed that government will give cash handouts instead of food to the vulnerable. While announcing a total lockdown on Friday evening, President Yoweri Museveni said the Premier and the National COVID-19 task force would work out modalities to help the most vulnerable people. &#8220;We have decided that any support [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27983,"featured_media":24650,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_paywall_metabox":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[31],"class_list":["post-24649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-featured"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24649","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27983"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24649"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24649\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24651,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24649\/revisions\/24651"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}