Since 2016, some 91 community livelihood projects have been funded and 25 community access roads opened through intensive public labour scheme to boost individual income at household level.
Robert Okullo, the LCIII Chairperson of Omoro Sub County which is regarded as the most affected wondered how they will be able to distribute the 600kgs among more than 3000 affected residents.
The iron sheets were distributed to the sub-counties of Bombo, Kijongo, Kapapi, Kiganja, Kisukuma and Kyabisagazi in Kigorobya county as well as Buraru and Kabale sub-counties in Bugahya county. Each sub county received 50 iron sheets.
The Office of the Prime Minister (OPM) has told Parliament’s Public Accounts Committee (PAC) that the National Meteorological Authority does not have the capacity to provide accurate warnings about impending disasters.
Bahati Ondoma, one of the affected persons, says they are in untold suffering ever since they were forcefully evicted from their ancestral land. He explains that most of them mainly children and women have nothing to eat and that some of their colleagues have started dying of hunger.
The Office of the Prime Minister- OPM failed to spend shillings 1.4 billion meant for pension, gratuity and agricultural supplies by end of 2018/2019 financial year.
