Continuous floods hit Teso

By Felix Osujo

A total of 3000 families in Serere district have fled their homes after continuous torrential rains caused flooding of majority homes.

With pit latrines water-logged, people have now been compelled to defecate in water, causing a horrible smell, and most of their grass-thatched houses and semi permanent homes have collapsed due to the increasing pressure of the water.

Most of the gardens have been submerged and some of the highway murram roads are flooded.

In Owiny parish Agule village in Kateta sub-county, the worst hit in the district of Serere, most of the affected families are still enduring the conditions despite their homes being flooded.

Families have appealed to government to assist them with tapelines for drying food,tents for providing emergency accommodations ,mosquitoe nets,water purification,posho and beans to help them through the natural disaster.

“The devastation of water-logging  has affected all the villages in the subcounties. Roughly 3000 families, most of them  taking refuge in the  trading centers with over 200 pit latrines destroyed and 1000 crops in the gardens submerged,” the chairman LC5 of Serere district Opit said .

Opit on November 11(this year) led a delegation of the district officials visiting the worst affected villages to ascertain the extent of destruction.

He identified the most hit villages in Bugondo sub-county as Agule,Owii,Okokoma,in Labor sub-county as Obangin,Akworo,Aarapo,in Kyere  sub-county as Kelim ,Kamurojo villages. In Kateta sub-county,LC3 , indentified the worst hit villages  as Aisin,Acomia,Okulukulun,Nanang A-B,Awoja,Pachoto,Owiny,Agule,Olagar and Chamuliki.

In Katakwi ,RDC ,Joseph Arwata,identified the sub counties highly affected as Magoro,Palam, and Ngariam. He said water logging has impaired most of the  people of movement and it has caused damage in gardens.
   
In Ngora district, Chairman LC5 ,Ben Eumu,described the situation as the worst in the villages of Atapar,Omito in Kapir sub county,MoruKakise ,Asinge ,Apuai in Mukura subcounty,Agu and Odwarat in Ngora sub county. He said hundreds of  crops in the gardens submerged and some of the huts in some villages have collapsed .

In Bukedea, the vice chairman LC5,Charles Ojilong,identified the most hit places as ,Aminit Busano,Akakat,Okula,Kagoloto,Kamutur and Tajar in Malera sub county.