Bebe Cool Calls for Lockdown in Uganda
20 March 2020
By Gloria
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With no registered Corona Virus case in Uganda yet, Gagamel singer, Moses Ssali alias Bebe Cool has offered some tips to prevent the spread considering the fast rising number of confirmed cases in East Africa.
Through his social media handles, the 'Wire Wire’ hit maker urged President Yoweri Museveni to put the whole country on a lock-down; all border points and airports to stop people from entering and going out of the country.
He further advised to government to ban all public transportation so people can stay at home.
Here is his full statement:
"My advise to the president of the republic of UGANDA. Its time to go to step 2, LOCK DOWN ALL BORDER POINTS AND AIRPORTS completely before we regret. Give UGANDANS one week to prepare for national residential LOCK DOWN.
The army should swing in then to enforce guided movements of say one person per household to access either shops or hospitals. Put up help lines for people to call in case of signs and symptoms. What has hit the rest of the world will by all means hit UGANDA but STRONG TIMELY measures might minimize the impact to suit our economic capabilities to fight back.
Ugandans are moving in and out of the country to already affected Rwanda and Kenya yet if we look at the incubation period of the Corona virus, the present tests cannot be accurate as there is a 30% gap/possibility of it not being detected within 14 days. We need to stop public transportation like buses and taxis immediately. People should now be encouraged to stay in their homes from this weekend.
We are going to face the worst as UGANDA because we don't have the resources to handle this epidemic if it hits us massively which it will, if we don't move to stage two by this weekend. Mr president, the committee comprising of different ministers of concerned areas like trade and transport and others has been formed but take the health minister as your first priority adviser as of now because in such a committee, the health minister's advise might be ignored by the committee as they might present economic defence. What's the use of defending an economy for dead people.”
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