{"id":48635,"date":"2023-05-03T09:52:40","date_gmt":"2023-05-03T09:52:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/houses-submerged-as-floods-sweep-through-lukaya-lwera"},"modified":"2023-05-03T12:14:17","modified_gmt":"2023-05-03T12:14:17","slug":"houses-submerged-as-floods-sweep-through-lukaya-lwera","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/houses-submerged-as-floods-sweep-through-lukaya-lwera","title":{"rendered":"Houses submerged as floods sweep through Lukaya, Lwera"},"content":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Uganda. <\/strong><\/span>Torrential rains currently being experienced in various parts of the country have caused flooding in Lukaya Town in Kalungu District, paralysing businesses.<\/p>\n

According to Fazil Jjingo a business operator in Lukaya Town Council, the heavy rains which have pondered the area for three consecutive days forced Katabazungu stream to burst its banks on May 1 leading to flooding in the area.<\/p>\n

\u201cMerchandise in different shops has been destroyed and many businesses are almost at a standstill,\u2019\u2019 he said.<\/p>\n

Businesses adjacent to Uganda Cares building in Lukaya Town are the most affected and owners have been forced to relocate their goods to reduce losses.<\/p>\n

Different residents attribute the flooding to corruption which led to illegal construction of structures that interfere with the normal flow of the stream.<\/p>\n

\u2018\u2019Lukaya is steadily developing and those constructing houses chose to encroach on the banks of the stream and this is why we are suffering now,\u201d Sam Ssekito, a trader in the town said.<\/p>\n

In the neighbouring Kamuwunga Village located within the vast Lwera swamp, floods have affected hundreds of households, and many have been displaced after their houses got submerged in water.<\/p>\n

According to Ronald Ssemanda, the chairperson Kamuwunga landing site,when it started raining on Saturday morning, they thought it was the usual rain, but it continued on both Sunday and Monday \u2013raining the whole day \u2013forcing houses to submerge and water is all over inside residents\u2019 houses.<\/p>\n

Both farmers and sand miners in Lwera dug trenches in the spacious swamp that connect directly to Lake Victoria.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are lucky that no death has been recorded, but the situation is likely to worsen if it continues raining in the coming days,\u201d Ssemanda told Monitor <\/b>on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

Deus Mubiru, a resident in the area, said: \u201cI have been here for 28 years but there weren\u2019t such problems. We started experiencing floods in 2010 when sand mining began. We have tried to talk to the concerned authorities but we haven\u2019t got help.\u201d<\/p>\n

FYI<\/b><\/p>\n

This is the second time in four months that residents at Kamuwunga are suffering a similar disaster. In January when houses in the area got submerged in water, the affected residents relocated to safer places like Nabyewanga in Mpigi District and Lukaya Town Council.<\/p>\n

Lwera swamp stretches about 20kms on the Kampala\u2013Masaka Highway and is a major water catchment area that connects several rivers and wetlands in Gomba, Mpigi and Kalungu districts. The swamp drains directly into Lake Victoria.<\/p>\n

March \u2013June usually constitutes the first major rain season in Uganda, but weather experts recently predicted that the rain will be destructive in some parts of the country, especially in the central region and urged the public to be alert.<\/p>\n

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