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By Isaac Mumbere

KASESE

The Government of Uganda through the Ministry of Education and Sports has confirmed the construction of Nyamwamba Seed Secondary School in Kasese Municipality.

Nyamwamba Seed Secondary School will be part of the 60 Seed Secondary Schools that will be constructed across the country.

Estimated to cost three billion shillings, the construction works of Nyamwamba Seed Secondary School will be funded by the World Bank.

Addressing the press yesterday afternoon at Virina Gardens in Kasese town, Hon. Ferigo Kambale, the Kasese Municipality Member of Parliament, said once completed, the project would create more jobs for the qualified teachers and also enhance access to education by the residents in the Municipality and surrounding areas.

He also used the same platform to reveal that he has been able to lobby five heifers (cows) from the NAADS Secretariat which will be given to churches and 90 piglets to be given to the community members in a rotational manner after multiplication.

He was optimistic that the project would help to improve the livelihoods of the community members.

The legislator also displayed a letter that he had written to President Museveni requesting him to look for special funds to facilitate the de-silting works of the whole Nyamwamba Water Channel equivalent to 25 kilometers.

According to him, the project of de-silting River Nyamwamba Water Channel would cost government shillings 132 billion. END

By Wilber Muhwezi Kasibante

In Kampala /Sheema

Mushanga Sacco ltd located in Ankole with the headquarters in nyamufumura Sheema municipality has again won a platinum award as the best digitally enabled Sacco in the country .

The award was cliched in competitions organized by future link technologies in which over 100 Sacco’s participated.

The award ceremony was held at Grand Global Hotel Kikoni Makerere in Kampala City recently.

The executive Director Uganda Micro Finance Regulatory Authority (UMRA) Ms. Tusubira Edith Namugga hailed Mushanga Sacco for remaining on top and serving Ugandans.

Ms. Tusubira also applauded future link Technologies for organizing competitions that challenges Saccos to work hard.

Mushanga Sacco was represented by two staff including head of IT Mr. Kwesiga Alex and Mr. Mpangane Venerian head of credit.

According to Mr. Kwesiga Alex, the competition as about MSacco usage and sensitization of members about its usage.

Mushanga started over 50 years ago and has 12 branches spread in Ankole sub region. It has been winning awards as the best Sacco in Uganda.

By Isaac Mumbere

KASESE

People who were recently displaced by landslides in Kasese district have appealed to the government to relocate them to safer places.

A total of 45,000 people are currently encamped at more than 18 temporarily established camps after their houses were permanently and partially destroyed by the May floods and landslides.

Agnes Kabugho, a resident of Kanyatsi village in Kyarumba sub-county says she is now homeless because her house got submerged and eventually collapsed, an act that forced her to move to the camp with her six children.

It is against this background that Kabugho suggests to the central government to come to their rescue and relocate them to disaster free areas within and outside the district.

However, Robert Masereka Kisubi, a resident of Kibathi village in Kyondo sub-county has a different thinking about relocation to another area.

According to him, the government has failed to resettle the people who were displaced in May 2020 and are currently encamped at Muhokya in a deplorable situation. He argues that the process of resettling the current ones might be harder.

But Mr. Johnson Masereka, the Project Coordinator for Kyarumba Banywani Tree Farmers, advises the government to deliberately support people’s focus on conserving the environment.

Masereka says that during their field assessment study, they discovered that the recent disaster indeed wrecked havoc that is likely to cost the government a lot of money in her reconstruction process.

ENDS