{"id":49126,"date":"2021-07-16T10:38:19","date_gmt":"2021-07-16T07:38:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kfm.co.ug\/?p=49126"},"modified":"2021-07-16T10:38:19","modified_gmt":"2021-07-16T07:38:19","slug":"operation-wealth-creation-defends-first-lockdown-covid19-food-relief-deal-denies-receiving-over-shs-81bn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/operation-wealth-creation-defends-first-lockdown-covid19-food-relief-deal-denies-receiving-over-shs-81bn\/","title":{"rendered":"Operation Wealth Creation defends first lockdown covid19 food relief deal, denies receiving over Shs 81bn"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Ritah Kemigisa<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

The Operation Wealth Creation (OWC) has refuted claims that they illegally acquired a deal to supply relief food during last year’s lockdown and after\u00a0inflated the food prices.<\/span><\/p>\n

Many Ugandans have since questioned how this office that is coordinated by president Museveni’s brother, Gen Salim Saleh got the deal and yet it only deals in agricultural inputs and not produce.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

However, addressing journalists, the OWC director of operations Sylvia Owori says the deal was\u00a0a special procurement from the OPM adding that they sourced the food supplies from their existent network of about 2 million small household farmers.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWe came in to save the situation, people were going to die and yet we knew where to get good quality food,\u201d she said.<\/span><\/p>\n

She adds that the farmers contributed 4M kgs of maize Flour worth shs 10billion and 1.8M Kgs of beans with shs 1.8 billion totaling to shs 18.1 billion and not shs 81.1 billion as reported.<\/span><\/p>\n

Owori meanwhile argues that for the first time, the small farmers had a share of the money away from the big shots.<\/span><\/p>\n

The fight is between the big producers who exploit the small farmers, for example the farmers sold to us Posho at shs 2400 and yet OPM had given shs 2500, we used the shs as operation cost,\u201d she said.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Ritah Kemigisa The Operation Wealth Creation (OWC) has refuted claims that they illegally acquired a deal to supply relief food during last year’s lockdown and after\u00a0inflated the food prices. Many Ugandans have since questioned how this office that is coordinated by president Museveni’s brother, Gen Salim Saleh got the deal and yet it only deals in agricultural inputs and not produce.\u00a0 However, addressing journalists, the OWC director of operations Sylvia Owori says the deal was\u00a0a special procurement from the OPM adding that they sourced the food supplies from their existent network of about 2 million small household farmers. \u201cWe came in to save the situation, people were going to die and yet we knew where to get good quality […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":49127,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","filesize_raw":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"source_name":"","source_url":"","via_name":"","via_url":"","override_template":"0","override":[{"template":"1","single_blog_custom":"","parallax":"1","fullscreen":"1","layout":"right-sidebar","sidebar":"default-sidebar","second_sidebar":"default-sidebar","sticky_sidebar":"1","share_position":"top","share_float_style":"share-monocrhome","show_share_counter":"1","show_view_counter":"1","show_featured":"1","show_post_meta":"1","show_post_author":"1","show_post_author_image":"1","show_post_date":"1","post_date_format":"default","post_date_format_custom":"Y\/m\/d","show_post_category":"1","show_post_reading_time":"0","post_reading_time_wpm":"300","show_zoom_button":"0","zoom_button_out_step":"2","zoom_button_in_step":"3","show_post_tag":"1","show_prev_next_post":"1","show_popup_post":"1","number_popup_post":"1","show_author_box":"0","show_post_related":"0","show_inline_post_related":"0"}],"override_image_size":"0","image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"crop-500","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-500"}],"trending_post":"0","trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending","sponsored_post":"0","sponsored_post_label":"Sponsored by","sponsored_post_name":"","sponsored_post_url":"","sponsored_post_logo_enable":"0","sponsored_post_logo":"","sponsored_post_desc":""},"jnews_primary_category":{"id":""},"jnews_social_meta":{"fb_title":"","fb_description":"","fb_image":"","twitter_title":"","twitter_description":"","twitter_image":""},"jnews_override_counter":{"override_view_counter":"0","view_counter_number":"0","override_share_counter":"0","share_counter_number":"0","override_like_counter":"0","like_counter_number":"0","override_dislike_counter":"0","dislike_counter_number":"0"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49126"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49126"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49126\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}