BY JOACKIM KULE
Residents in Kasese Municipality have asked the government to devise long lasting measures aimed at curbing the flooding of River Nyamwamba and other water bodies in Kasese District.
The residents argue that being a period when the government is in the budgeting process, it should secure the money for desilting and building gabions along the banks of River Nyamwamba.
Mr. Joseph Nzukwa, the Head Teacher at Kasese Secondary School, argues that River Nyamwamba has greatly affected the livelihoods of the people because whenever it floods, it causes loss of property, washes away crop gardens and buildings.
Nzukwa says the government needs to give maximum attention to the flooding rivers so that they are redirected to their original channels.
The Base Camp Lower Chairperson, Jafali Kigutia, expresses disappointment over the way the government is spending a lot of money on the short-term interventions but have not allegedly yielded an impact.
According to Kigutia, the government has always allegedly deceived them by attempting to desilt some parts of the river channel and declines to complete the whole waterway.
He suggests to the government to procure a machine that would always be stationed in the river for routine desilting.
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