Last week the court ordered Parliament to stop the payment, but the money had already been deposited into the lawmakers’ banks accounts.

Opposition to the payments of more than R90,000 to MPs has united  President Yoweri Museveni , who calls it morally reprehensible, with his arch rival Bobby Wine MP, who has denounced it as shameful.

The agree the money should be paid to bodies specially set up to fight COVID 19.

The High Court case was brought by independent MP Gerald Karuhanga who opposed the payments.

Uganda’s had 81 confirmed cases of COVID 19, but not deaths from coronavirus to date.

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