Damaged by multi-billion COVID-19 lockdown losses, external recruitment firms protest gov’t refusal to open up lucrative domestic workers segment even after airports reopen UAERA, Baker Akantambira,

When the government of Uganda announced that Entebbe International Airports would be open effective 01st October 2020 members of the Uganda Association of External Recruitment Agencies (UAERA) were among the most excited. Many of them, according to Ronnie Mukundane the UAERA spokesperson, had braved the 7 months of airport closure, keeping their costs to the bare minimum- trying to not to close office as they still had an obligation to especially keep their customer services desks open to deal with inquiries from parents as well as the thousands of Ugandan workers abroad, mainly in the Middle East. “Our over 200…