{UAH} Lockdown only affecting the poor, rich are living a normal life
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The number of recorded Covid-19 cases in Uganda has surpassed 56,000 and families are mourning the loss of more than 2,000 people so far.
With the intention of controlling the spread of the virus and protecting Ugandan lives, Gen Kaguta Museveni Tibuhaburwa ordered a national lockdown to limit the movement of persons.
It has become clear that while Covid-19 is indiscriminate, the impacts of warped and unconstitutional presidential directives as responses to prevent it are not. The poor Ugandans are discriminated against and the comeuppance has made many barely left with what to eat or even pay bills.
Those tasked with enforcing the directives are failing to meet their binding obligations to ensure non-discrimination in the enjoyment of human rights for all - there should never be first-class Ugandans.
But if you have been on the road since the lockdown was announced, you will agree with me that the traffic is normal except that it is bereft of taxis, buses and boda bodas carrying the wretched of the earth-the poor.
All shopping malls' parking lots are full like as usual. At police roadblocks, those who drive big sleek expensive vehicles are not stopped whilst drivers of small cheap Toyota cars are the ones subjected to stops and checks.
The rich have stickers for their vehicles and are running their businesses whereas the poor who have to board taxis, buses or boda bodas to work in Kikuubo or downtown are locked in their homes which means that they are not earning and so enmeshed in indescribable debt.
Those who were earning hand-to-mouth and servicing loans are home desperate with their starving families. The rich, can move anywhere they want as they run their businesses masquerading as essential workers while the poor will be beaten up by LDUs if they attempt to move.
The lockdown becomes illogical when one person can drive about normally, but a poor person who depends on public transport cannot do the same.
It's the same way National Resistance Movement (NRM) held mass spreader rallies and violently harassed the opposition for doing the same in the last election.
Coronavirus is here to stay, but we must work and survive regardless. The NRM government has failed to eradicate poverty even when we had no pandemic but it is ignorantly driving those who are living hand to mouth into more poverty.
We all have a right to work and earn a living as it is enshrined in the 1995 Constitution but when the government stops the indigent from working without giving them alternative means of survival, it is madness and illogical.
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