By Johana Kirabo, KAMPALA
Uganda
The Uganda opposition party, Democratic Party (DP) has urged the government to stop denying unvaccinated people access to public places, saying that there is no legal framework to back it up.
DP
national legal advisor Luyimbazi Nalukoola said that if government intends to
use this strategy to encourage people to take up vaccination, then they should
seek to back it up with the law.
“The
Democratic Party demands that government institutions prioritise the law as it
is, as opposed to how it ought to be which has misinformed their actions,”
Nalukoola said.
Nalukoola’s
comments come at a time when a number of public offices have restricted access
to their space to only vaccinated people.
Some
of the offices to effect this measure include National Medical Stores, National
Drug Authority, Ministry of Health, among others. Parliament, too, announced
last week that they were to restrict sittings to only vaccinated MPs.
Nalukoola
said that as DP, they condemn the new developments.
“That
action and or desires is unconstitutional, illegal, alien and therefore null
and void ab initio,” Nalukoola added.
NRM
deputy secretary general Rose Namayanja while appearing on NBS TV Morning
Breeze on Tuesday supported the idea of blocking unvaccinated people, saying it
would force people to take the vaccine, and support the government efforts of
having at least 4.8 million people by December.
According
to the Health Ministry, at least 3 million people have so far been vaccinated
with their first dose.
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