Over 2000 elders in Kotido district have successfully been verified and are set to be incorporated to start benefiting from the Uganda Social Assistance Grants for Empowerment-SAGE program.

Following a successive vetting by the Ministry of Gender, Labor and Social development of elders in Kotido in March this year, some elders had their particulars wrongly entered in their national id’s, making them fail to benefit from the SAGE program.

The elders who claimed to be 80 claimed National Identification Registration Authority-NIRA officials deployed to capture their information wrongly entered their credentials which made ineligible beneficiaries.

Brian Etuko, Kotido Community based Services head of department however says the vetting exercise was a success, where 2113 in Kotido district will be enrolled to start benefiting from the SAGE program.

According to Etuko, the Uganda Registration Services Bureau-URSB had already completed their part and they are only waiting for NIRA to issue documentations to the elders.

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