How Tourism Minister, Kiwanda was thrown out of a Kampala Hotel at midnight with 80 quarantined Covid-19 suspects and Hotel Nyumbani came to the rescue Recently there were media reports that accused the Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Health Dr Diana Kanzira Atwine of using her office to ensure that her sister’s hotel- Nyumbani Hotel was chosen among the hotels to isolate suspected Covid-19 cases. But in this harrowing tale, Hon. Godfrey Kiwanda, the Chairman of the National Taskforce Committee on non-medical logistics tells of how he literally begged Nyumbani Hotel’s proprietor, Hon Frank Tumwebaze past midnight after 80 travelers that government had booked at Metropole Hotel in Kampala were denied access over Covid-19 stigma. In his Hon. Kiwanda’s view the hotel owners who accepted to host Covid-19 suspected cases when everybody was turning them away deserve to be recognized rather than scolded with trumped-up allegations.

Muhereza KyamuteteraJune 3, 2020June 4, 2020

Located in Kampala - Makerere, Nyumbani Hotel Makerere has 55 comfortable rooms. According to government, unlike the other hotels which declined to grant suspected Covid-19 access, the hotel owners were flexible and open.

On the evening of March 18th 2020, President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni announced government would shut down schools, religious gatherings and entertainment places in order to decongest high risk population concentration zones. Addressing the nation that evening, President Museveni also said that Cabinet, sitting on Monday 16th March 2020 had in a pre-emptive move also decided to as well bar Ugandans from travelling to or through class 1 affected countries. Foreigners intending to travel to these countries, would not be stopped but they wouldn’t be allowed to travel back to Uganda within 32 days. Travelers from those countries were also…

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