Prime Minister Robinah Nabbanja has urged the public to boycott all fuel stations across the country that are still selling fuel above Shs 5000.
Nabbanja, in a recorded video message that she sent through her verified Twitter handle said that following government intervention, it is now not necessary to sell fuel above Shs 5000, and all that are selling it beyond that should be boycotted.
The prime minister said that the decision was taken at this week’s cabinet meeting, following measures to ease fuel tankers traffic flow across the country’s borders.
It is said that the fuel crisis in the country was due to a pile-up of fuel trucks at the Kenya-Uganda border points of Malaba and Busia which was blamed on mandatory Covid-19 testing of all truck drivers, a directive that was issued early this month.
Government through the Ministry of Health suspended the mandatory Covid-19 testing directive, allowing traffic at the borders to ease.
Although this week, there is a peak of fuel prices around the country, as a number of fuel stations across the major cities country wide were still selling a litre of fuel slightly above Shs 5000 by close of business yesterday.
