BUSHENYI RESIDENTS, ACTIVISTS TO WAGE WAR ON INDIVIDUALS FOR DEGRADING ENVIRONMENT

Posted On 08 May 2021

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By Sandra Tumwekwase

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In Bushenyi—

Residents in Bushenyi have been called upon to wage a war against individuals especially the rich who are degrading the environment.

Zadock Amanyisa a journalist and environmental activist asked everyone to take responsibility over the environment and not to just watch on as individuals degrade nature moreover the majority will in the near future suffer the consequences.

Dr. Semakula the CEO MTNI , planting a tree at the district headquarters.

He noted that the rich are on the top of environmental degradation and when oxygen shortage hits Uganda, they will rush to hospitals to get the artificial one while the poor will just die like grasshoppers.

He said these yesterday at a closure of a one day environmental conservation campaign dubbed ‘environmental justice’ aimed at sensitizing public about the importance of green nature and dangers of degradation.

Environmental justice campaign participants cleaning around Bushenyi health Centre IV

Amanyisa lamented that amidst all these, leaders and other concerned authorities are quiet instead of taking action against the encroachers.

Participants from different organizations volunteered to pick garbage across the town in addition to planting trees at different places as a strategy in efforts to conserve the environment.

Bushenyi DPC Mr. Joe Komakech planting a tree at the Central Police Station compound.

The CEO, Million Trees National Initiative (MTNI) Uganda Dr. Jibril Semakura Owomugisha expressed disappointment with the way sanitation at Bushenyi health Centre IV is handled.

He noted that patients who come to the hospital are likely to contract more diseases instead of getting help since the sanitation at the health Centre is alarming.

Dr. Jibril Semakura a doctor by profession pledged to provide more trees to Bushenyi Ishaka municipality so that they can be planted along the roads with an aim of increasing Uganda’s forest coverage that had declined from 24%(1990) to 9% by 2018.

He however revealed that with the organisation’s efforts through One constituency one million trees campaign , the forest coverage has been pushed from 9% as per 2018 to 12.4%

He noted that as MTNI, they will continue to plant fruit trees in schools, provide Ugandans with short term plants such as vegetables all aimed at promoting food security, increasing house hold income as well as creating green jobs.