AMURU RESIDENTS PROTEST OVER CLEAN WATER

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Residents of Amuru hold bottles containing the water they access for drinkingand other purposes. They demanded for a borehole in Pogi


A section of residents in Amuru district have urged the Government the government to give them clean water.The Residents were in a meeting organized by Forum for Women in Democracy (FOWODE) in Otwee Town Council Amuru district headquarter.

The residents who came with samples of dirty water in bottles to show the Resident district Commissioner claimed that for long they have been drinking dirty water. They also explained that most of their children are suffering from warms and dysentery as a result of drinking dirty water.
Grace Acan, one of the women explained that she moves almost 3km to fetch clean water from a borehole in Otwee town council.

“We do not have any bore hole drilled in Pogi and we have to move to Otwee Town council to get clean water for drinking”, Acan explained.
Acan wants the government to drill a bore hole in her village so that the whole community may have drinking water.

Nancy Auma urged the RDC to forward their concerns to the president so that they may also enjoy life just like the rest of the country.

However Denis Olila, the RDC for Amuru while responding to the matter explained that there were so many areas where the district had planned to construct bore holes in this financial year.
Olila said that they were also facing challenges in finding the water because the team drilling bore holes could not discover water in some areas.

The Forum for Women in Democracy (FOWODE) is a non-partisan Women’s Organization operating in Uganda with its head office in Kampala. FOWODE grew out of the women’s caucus of the 1994-1995 Constituent Assembly (CA) that debated and passed the 1995 constitution.
FOWODE works to promote Gender equality in all areas of decision-making through advocacy, training, research and publications.


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