BY MATHIUS KAHUNGU
A section of people from Bukonzo County West in Kasese district have got a reason to smile after realizing that the challenge of food insecurity in their families was now history.
The residents mostly leaders made the revelation over the weekend while speaking to Messiah Radio in an exclusive interview at St. James Kyempara Church of Uganda Parish in Bwera Archdeaconry, South Rwenzori Diocese.
Mr. Moses Tsutsu, the Isango Sub-county Chairperson and Hon. Johnson Mayors, the Kasese District Council Speaker, who also doubles as the Councilor representing Isango Sub-county, noted that the challenge of food insecurity had been fought by the people’s efforts to grow cassava and other food varieties.
They subsequently hailed the Central Government for erecting an electric wire fense that has barred elephant s from straying into people’s crop gardens and destroying them.
The leaders happily said that because of an increase in food production in the area, the prices of cassava flour has drastically reduced from shillings 3, 000 per kilogram to shillings 1,000.
However, Mr. Tsutsu discouraged the people from making any attempts of vandalizing the electric wire fense in search of firewood from the National Park.
Earlier, in his remarks, the South Rwenzori Diocesan Bishop, the Rt. Rev. Nason Baluku had told the Christians to not relax, asking them to grow more cassava in a bid to boost food security at their homes.
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