Displaced Bakiga get relief
Sep 02, 2003
THE World Food Programme (WFP) on Monday donated relief food to the Bakiga, camped at the Lugogo playground for the past four months, reports Charles Ariko.
THE World Food Programme (WFP) on Monday donated relief food to the Bakiga, camped at the Lugogo playground for the past four months, reports Charles Ariko.
The food items included 3,000kgs of posho, 400kgs of beans and three bags of salt. They also received 100 kgs of sugar and 17 cartons of cooking oil.
The leader of displaced Bakiga, Paul Keizire said they were living in squalid conditions at Lugogo and tired of living on handouts.
“We are capable of working. We are only waiting for the Government to give us land. Even if it means us walking on foot to whichever place the Government has identified for us, we shall do so. We want to leave this place.
Our children are not going to school. We are just suffering here living on handouts from well-wishers†Keizire said.
The 264 Bakiga were displaced in Hoima district and have been living at Lugogo for four months. The Government had earlier promised to resettle them at Kyankwanzi.
They sleep in two huge tents with women and children occupying one of the tents. The other tent accommodates the men. Keizire said they were waiting for the Government action since they have no place to go to.
The food items included 3,000kgs of posho, 400kgs of beans and three bags of salt. They also received 100 kgs of sugar and 17 cartons of cooking oil.
The leader of displaced Bakiga, Paul Keizire said they were living in squalid conditions at Lugogo and tired of living on handouts.
“We are capable of working. We are only waiting for the Government to give us land. Even if it means us walking on foot to whichever place the Government has identified for us, we shall do so. We want to leave this place.
Our children are not going to school. We are just suffering here living on handouts from well-wishers†Keizire said.
The 264 Bakiga were displaced in Hoima district and have been living at Lugogo for four months. The Government had earlier promised to resettle them at Kyankwanzi.
They sleep in two huge tents with women and children occupying one of the tents. The other tent accommodates the men. Keizire said they were waiting for the Government action since they have no place to go to.