Dr Chris Mukiza
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NEWS- About 35 individuals in Kasese district who participated in the recent concluded National Population and Hosing census 2024 as enumerators and supervisors have not yet received their facilitation, Mr. Joseph Isingoma the district senior planner has revealed.

Kasese district recruited 2,036 enumerators and 215 enumerations supervisors to conduct the exercise and payments were made via mobile money.

Addressing media yesterday evening at Verina Gardens in Kasese town, Mr. Isingoma noted that whereas government paid candidates who participated in the exercise, about 35 have not yet received their money since their mobile numbers that were submitted in ministry read other names that are different from those on their identity cards which made the government to pend paying them.

He however revealed that as the district they are to resubmit the details of the affected candidates in order to be paid.

When asked about individuals who were not counted, Mr. Isingoma stressed that the government will conduct post enumeration in areas which they suspect people were not fully counted.

Uganda Bureau of Statistics will release the actual total number of people in the month of November.