In Uganda, the financial penalties of the brand new partial containment that started this weekend are already being felt by a few of the inhabitants. Since Saturday 19 June and for a interval of 42 days, all transport, public or non-public, is forbidden, locations of worship are closed and the curfew modified to 19:00 as an alternative of 21:00 Amongst essentially the most affected is bike taxi or “boda boda” which circulates all over the place in Kampala. Prohibition for them to take passengers: they’ll now solely work with deliveries. A major lack of revenue for the vast majority of them.
as reported from Kampala, Lucie Mouillaud
Mendacity on his bike, Chris has been ready for the reason that starting of the day surrounded by a dozen different bodas bodas, Ugandan mototaxis: “They are saying we will make deliveries,” he says, however we by no means discover it. So all of us keep right here collectively to spend the time till the curfew approaches, then we go house. ”
Only a few have managed to ship to interchange their clients. Peter feels happier than the others: he carries 5 bins of seedlings a day. However he misplaced three-quarters of his common revenue: “With the 5,000 shillings (about one euro) that I now earn as an alternative of 20,000 shillings (about 4 euros), it’s troublesome, I spend them in in the future, between meals and coal which I actually have to purchase. ”
“It is so troublesome”
Many Ugandans and particularly bodas bodas didn’t totally get well after the primary containment in March 2020. That is the case for Nelson, additionally a mototaxi: “Throughout the first containment I didn’t work however I had some financial savings. However since then, enterprise has by no means restarted 100%, I actually have no extra money, and now there’s this new lock. That is why it is so troublesome. ”
For different employees, stopping mototaxis and public transport has had severe penalties: some can now not go to work, whereas others generally go for hours to proceed their actions.
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