20 ghost emyooga groups unearthed in Fort Portal
May 31, 2021 RCC Rogers Mbabazi
At least 20 emyooga beneficiary ghost groups have been unearthed in Fort Portal, the resident city commissioner (RCC), Rodgers Mbabazi has said.
Emyooga is a presidential initiative on job and wealth creation that targets 18 clusters including restaurant owners, boda-boda riders, women entrepreneurs, carpenters, salon operators, journalists, people with disabilities, fishermen, mechanics, performing artists, and taxi operators. Each constituency was given Shs 560 million.
The estimated nationwide budget for the programme is about Shs 260 billion. Mbabazi says that upon a verification exercise, however, he made a discovery that some of the listed prospective beneficiaries in Fort Portal city in western Uganda were non-existent.