Jinja City taskforce commences exercise to register all essential workers 

The Covid-19 taskforce in Jinja city has Thursday embarked on the exercise of registering essential workers’ vehicles, as a means of enforcing the presidential ban on transport. 

Jinja City taskforce commences exercise to register all essential workers 
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The Covid-19 taskforce in Jinja city has Thursday embarked on the exercise of registering essential workers’ vehicles, as a means of enforcing the presidential ban on transport. 

Essential workers have been tasked to avail employment identity cards, details of the organizations they are attached to and number plates, before being cleared to access Jinja city central business area. 

The taskforce had registered at least 400 vehicles by 10:00am yet several others were still waiting in the long traffic que. 

Security mounted several road blocks along the major routes connecting to Jinja city, which are being manned by both police and UPDF officers to ensure compliance of all drivers.

Jinja resident city commissioner, David Matovu says vehicle owners, most of whom had forged movement permits were congesting the central business area as they abandon their cars, which are normally parked in the middle of the streets and hinder both service vans and cargo trucks from conveniently accessing their clients.

He adds that some essential workers were also illegally ferrying passengers, but with the current ongoing registration, it will be easy to regulate their activities.

Despite the current lockdown measures, the Kiira central police commander Mourice Niyonzima says that Jinja city continues to register heavy traffic during rush hours and it is hard to ascertain whether all of them are cleared to drive these vehicles.

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