ANOTHER L. BUNYONYI ACCIDENT DROWNS 5, CHAIRMAN JOGO BEGS GOV’T TO PROVIDE FERRY AS PLEDGED IN 2015

By Grant Ahumuza

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In Rubanda

Rubanda district Chairperson Jogo Kenneth Biryabarema has appealed to the government to quickly fulfill its pledge to provide a ferry to communities around Lake Bunyonyi as a way of easing transport.

Jogo who is contesting for Rubanda East parliamentary seat was speaking to mourners in Karambo village in Muko Sub County Rubanda district at the funeral of three family members who drowned on Lake Bunyonyi on Wednesday.

Three bodies of the five family members who drowned were on Thursday discovered and retrieved.

The bodies still missing are that of the mother Glorious Tumuhimbise and her sister Ronah Ninsiima. The already discovered and retrieved bodies are of ;Tumuhimbise’s two daughters Sandra Kyokusiima and Shanita Ruhangariyo and then that of her other sister Pretty Kyomugabe.

Biryabarema reminded the President to fulfil his pledge to the communities around Lake Bunyonyi saying the introduction of a ferry would solve such deaths caused by the continued use of traditional water transport means like canoes.

Biryabarema also said that as locals wait for the introduction of a ferry, government should also consider giving life jackets to the communities surrounding Lake Bunyonyi as a way to also reduce the risks of death in case of any water accidents.

During presidential campaigns in 2015, President Museveni pledged to provide a ferry at Lake Bunyonyi in order to ease transport across the lake which had become a death trap for communities across the lake.

The President’s pledge has since then never been fulfilled despite the continuous Public outcry as the Lake continues to claim many lives especially the locals from communities neighbouring Lake Bunyonyi.

On 11th this month, other three people all residents of Katete Nkora in Nyamiryango parish Butanda Sub County Kabale district drowned in L. Bunyonyi as they were coming from Nyamiryango parish sailing back home using a canoe.

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