The Conservationist, Mustafa Gerima, started his journey in Kampala two weeks ago and endured extreme weather through the jungles and national parks along the route. He made nightlong stopovers at Bombo, Katuggo, Migyera, Kafu, Kigumba, Bweyale, Karuma, Pakwach and Nebbi, before arriving at his destination, Arua.
Francis Byarugaba, the Sembabule District Environmental Officer has described the encroachers as refugees who escaped from their gazetted settlement in Nakivale camp.
On Wednesday, the King commissioned an incinerator and forty trash cans along the river banks to help reduce on the trash that would normally be dumped into the river thereby affecting the quality and quantity of water.