Woman arrested over failure to pay Mokash loan.

Woman arrested over failure to pay Mokash loan.

arrested for failing to pay a Shs500,000 MTN Mokash loan she borrowed 8 months ago.

The single mother of 2 (name withheld) admitted to have borrowed the money but due to unavoidable circumstances, she failed to pay the loan.

She adds that she has never been a loan defaulter until hard times stroke her.

“I used to borrow money on MTN and Airtel but during the times of COVID-19 lockdown, I borrowed the money from my both lines but by the time I got the money to pay, the due date had already passed and I couldn’t sacrifice the little I had for paying it because I wouldn’t be eligible to borrow again,” she said.

“I was suffering with my children since I was laid off from my work, I had no source of income and no one to look out for to help in terms of finances. I saw that I was eligible to borrow upto 500k on MTN and upto 600k on Airtel. I borrowed it and that money helped me to push through the toughest 3 months of the first ever lockdown in Uganda,” she explained.