Nwoya leaders petition Attorney General on food security

A team of Nwoya district leaders has travelled to Kampala to have the Attorney General sign the food security ordinance into force.
 
Nwoya district Local Council(LC) 5 Chairman, Patrick Okello Oryema ,who led the team says the rate at which people in the district are selling off their food harvests is alarming which calls for regulation.
 
Oryema who spoke to Radio Rupiny on Wednesday says the district has been hit by food shortage in the last two years prompting them to draft the food and security ordinance.
 
He says in the ordinance, all homesteads are required to have food stores or granaries and plant at least an acre of any crop for consumption.
 
Oryema notes that this is aimed at preventing famine.
 
Kakanyero Moris Opiyo, a resident of Anaka sub-county believes that the current wave of hunger, in Acholi sub-region is because the Acholi no longer store food in the granary.