{"id":16724,"date":"2021-08-30T16:46:21","date_gmt":"2021-08-30T16:46:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/?p=16724"},"modified":"2021-08-30T15:31:33","modified_gmt":"2021-08-30T15:31:33","slug":"give-more-land-to-bulambuli-landslide-victims-nabbanja","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/give-more-land-to-bulambuli-landslide-victims-nabbanja","title":{"rendered":"Give more land to Bulambuli landslide victims \u2013 Nabbanja"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\">Uganda<\/a>. <\/strong><\/span>Prime Minister Robinah Nabbanja has given a two-week ultimatim to Bulambuli District leaders to ensure that each family settled at Bunambutye Resettlement Camp is given a second acre of land for farming as per the 2019 presidential directive.<\/p>\n<p>Ms Nabbanja made the directive during the commissioning of Bunambutye Health Centre III at the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have directed that starting on Monday [today], they should distribute land to the victims, who are suffering because they don\u2019t have food. Let them have the land so that they can grow their food,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>This follows complaints raised by the chairperson of landslide victims, Mr Nathan Wilson Wanasolo, who said the district leaders had deliberately refused to add them a second piece of land despite the Presidential directive in 2019.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe were promised two acres but the district has only given us one acre, which is not enough. To make matters worse, this area receives little rain and it has only one season in a year for planting crops,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Wanasolo added that some families were starving because the crops they planted in April dried up due to harsh weather conditions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe also ask government to fulfil its promise of providing us with water for production and tractors for improved mechanisation,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>This newspaper established that the district leaders had earlier warned Mr Wanasolo against raising issues facing the landslide victims.<\/p>\n<p>Some of the victims said part of the land meant for them had been grabbed or encroached on by investors in connivance with the district leaders.<\/p>\n<p>They also complained of lack of access to clean water and electricity.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Robert Wamai, one of the victims, said: \u201cWe have not been provided with electricity and water for domestic use. This has made life very difficult.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He added that many children have dropped out of school after the administration of Masaba Secondary School, where they were admitted, chased them away over lack of fees.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe school chased away most of our children claiming that the Office of the Prime Minister (OPM) only knows 56 students and yet there are more than 223 in the resettlement,\u201d Mr Wamai said.<\/p>\n<p>The victims also claimed that their children, who sat for Uganda Advanced Certificate of Education (UACE) at the same school, have been denied access to results.<\/p>\n<p>The headmaster of Masaba Secondary School, Mr Hussein Wambede, said: \u201cThe school currently demands about Shs150m in fees arrears but efforts to have it paid has not yielded results. The school\u2019s activities have been crippled due to debts.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While responding to the issues raised by the landslide victims, Ms Nabbanja said it was unfortunate that the district had acted contrary to the Presidential directives.<\/p>\n<p>She added that she was aware that some leaders tried to stop the victims from raising some of their grievances.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was told that they were stopped from including some of their grievances in the memorandum by some people,\u201d Ms Nabbanja said.<\/p>\n<p>The Bulambuli Resident District Commissioner, Mr Peter Paak Pex, said the land is available but attributed the delay to distribute it to lack of funds.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe were were waiting for money from OPM to slash the land before we can give it to the victims,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Ms Nabbanja, however, said there is no money in OPM due to budget cuts.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLet them give them land and they slash it themselves. I will come back here in two weeks to find out how far they have gone on the distribution,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>She added that other issues affecting the victims including upgrading Bunambutye to a town council, an irrigation scheme, among others will be handled with urgency.<\/p>\n<p>The Bulambuli District chairperson, Ms Annet Nandudu, said the district would allocate to each family their second acre without fail.<\/p>\n<p>The government in 2013 bought more than 2,800 acres of land to relocate and resettle people from different landslide prone-districts in Bugisu Sub-region.<\/p>\n<p>Close to 241 families, comprising more than 4,000 people have so far been resettled in the camp in two phases between 2019 and 2020.<\/p>\n<p>The first batch was resettled in May 2019 and another in February 2020.<\/p>\n<p>Hopeful<\/p>\n<p>About Bunambutye Health Centre III<\/p>\n<p>The health centre, which was constructed by Red Cross at a cost of about Shs1.9 billion, has an outpatient block, maternity ward and a twin staff house, among other structures.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Robert Kwesiga, the secretary of Red Cross, said the establishment of the health centre would help to bring health services nearer to the victims.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur ultimate goal is to save lives and this health centre will go a long way to improve access to better and quality healthcare,\u201d Mr Kwesiga said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Uganda. Prime Minister Robinah Nabbanja has given a two-week ultimatim to Bulambuli District leaders to ensure that each family settled at Bunambutye Resettlement Camp is given a second acre of land for farming as per the 2019 presidential directive. 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