FATHER DUMPS SON IN IBANDA

BY ELLY KARENZI   

IN IBANDA—
Ibanda district officer in charge of child and family protection unit has  advised the  people who can not manage to provide the  basic needs  for their   children to seek advise from the family  planning  organizations and experts so that their can produce the number of children they can afford to look after.

Sgt. Charles  Bampabwire  Kitiribiita said this following  the increased cases of child neglect in Ibanda district.  He was addressing some parents at Ibanda police headquarters yesterday who stormed his office hunting for their children who escape and go to town to look for employment as they claim that they are being harassed and mistreated by parents and even their guardians.
He said that of now, Ibanda police is stranded with one teenager  Bruce  Abaho  aged  10 years from Nakawa Division in Kampala who was  dropped in Ibanda by  his father only identified as  Robert. Abaho said that he came with his father  from Nakawa and they were heading home,but could not explain the name of the village where they were travelling to as he  had stayed for many years in Kampala.

Abaho told the police that his father called Robert  alerted him to park few items  like dressings, towel and tooth paste and soap  from  the bedroom  in presence of  his  mother called  Janet  Asiimwe  who is said  have been born from Ibanda    district ,but the names of the village was not disclosed to him. He said that he grew up in Nakawa division in Kampala  where he also attended the nursery school at Calvary Primary School in P.2. He described to police that his father Robert is working as a car washer in Kitintale in Kampala.

.Abaho narrated that him and his father travelled in a Bus from Kampala up to Ibanda town,  but his father  told him that was going to buy  cake and some soft drinks and disappeared as he could not be traced since Saturday. The boy who was shading tears said that it was his first time to travel from Kampala to up country and was shocked  to learn that his own father has  betrayed him.
The Officer in charge of child and family protection unit  Mr. Bampabwire has called upon
parents to take care of their children as one way of reducing domestic
cases.