Kampala, Uganda INDEPENDENT The Omukama Kingdom of Bunyoro Kitara, Solomon Gafubusa Iguru, has told the government to provide food aid to thousands of other people affected by the floods in Buliisa district.
Since March, more than 1,500 homes have been flooded as a result of emerging waters on Lake Albert. The most affected touchdown sites are Wanseko, Katanga, Masaka, Kigwera, Kawaibanda, Butiaba, Boma, Kigangaizi, Tugombili and Walukuba.
Others include Bugoigo, Kamagongoro, Kigungu, Serule, Piida, Waisoki, Triangle and Magali in the Butiaba subcondes, the landing of Kabolwa and Kigoya on the Kigoya sub-lock.
In a message read to him through Andrew Byakutaga, Prime Minister Bunyoro Kitara Kingdom, while assessing the extent of flood destruction at Wanseko Llanding on Friday, Omukama Iguru expressed fear over the government’s slow reaction.
“This is a wonderful risk and a great challenge that has affected my subjects, yet since March, the government has kept quiet despite several calls made through the Kingdom, local leaders and subjects. The government will have to come without delay and be offering its assistance to those people,” he said.
Omukama is also involved in the destruction of services such as immigration offices, public baths, Wanseko-Panyimur ferry docks and churches through flooding.
Godfrey Tibekanywa, the village’s secretary of defense at the Wanseko landing site, says many families are starving because they can’t eat.
Gilbert Kugonza, a fisherman, wonders why the government has not provided food aid when they are at the breaking point of the famine. It needs district leaders to force the government to respond to its fate.
Beatrice Bahoire, a mother of six and resident of Masaka’s contact in the Kigwera sub-district, says there may be a severe outbreak of malaria in the domain as flooded spaces attract mosquitoes.
Abdumike Muyomba, a resident of kabolwa’s contact site in the Buliisa sub-county, says they recently separated at Uganda’s Kabolwa church after their space was submerged. He says his entire circle of relatives of seven people depends on one meal a day.
Earlier this month, devastating flooding of emerging waters on Lake Albert submerged more than 400 homes in the Hoima district, displacing more than 2,000 people.
The maximum affected by others came from the contact sites of the contact sites of Kiryamboga, Nana, Fofo, Rwentale and Hoimo in the parish of Tonya in the sub-county of Buseruka.
In May, more than 200 citizens of the Dei and Panyimur subcondes in Pakwach district were displaced through the water from Lake Albert.
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