10 NEW VISION, Tuesday, October 1, 2013 REGIONAL NEWS TOWN CHAIRMAN CHARLES TABU SAID ONLY 10 PEOPLE HAD LEFT ELEGU Kitgum in      clean up AMURU campaign By Richard Drasimaku KITGUM Elegu trading centre in sub-county, , By Agnes Kyotalengerire is full of flies, with foul smell from the decomposing and Kitgum town council is grap- dead animals in stagnant water pling with tonnes of uncollect- left by floods. ed garbage, making the town Visitors and newcomers dirty and putting the residents’ to the cosmopolitan border health at risk. point often hold their nose in Amuru district “We collect over 70 tonnes of discomfort one month after the garbage every day, but still the devastation. chairman town is choking on garbage. It The floods inconvenienced is for this reason that we have over 6,000 traders and caused launched the “Keep Kitgum loss of billions of merchandise. Omach Atube Town Clean” campaign in ad- Many papyrus, reed and dition to the usual cleaning bamboo housing units and routine,” said Richard Okwera kiosks are still submerged in gave residents Ojara, the area LC3 chairman, the water, rendering them non- Photo by Richard Drasimaku at the launch of the drive on habitable. two days to Saturday. However, thousands of allocated them free plots. Okwera attributed the over- traders based at Elegu have “We heard the chairman’s leave the town whelming garbage to the grow- ignored calls from Amuru BETWEEN THE LINES: Issues women MPs raised ultimatum, but we know that ing population in the town that district leaders to shift to Bibia  the district officials wanted is now over 75,000 people. trading centre 9km away from !(+ to use the floods as a pretext facilities such as the Police “We have no garbage skips the disaster area. ((5 because we have a pending post, immigration office and have only one garbage 6#" Amuru district chairman court case, which restrained and the Revenue truck and tractor,” he said. Anthony Omach Atube made  them from evicting us Authority customs and Richard Gimei Nsiiro, the the call in the wake of the + earlier on,” Lois Dratea, the domestic tax offices. town’s community mobiliser, devastating floods on August, "5 chairperson of Elegu village She said Elegu is so blamed the horrible situation 18, giving the traders two days women’s association, said. strategically located close to on the poor attitude of resi- to vacate the border town, people had left Elegu. malicious intention. She said if the district the busy town and dents towards ensuring good which he said was dangerous Those who remained at They claim he was using the officials were concerned about said they would rather die sanitation and hygiene. to live in. Elegu say they viewed Atube’s floods as an excuse to get rid the people, they would have there than abandon their “People dump garbage any- Bibia trading centre chairman ultimatum with suspicion, of traders who refused to pay demanded for relocation of all investments to go to Bibia where and less than 10% of Charles Tabu said only 10 saying he could have had a land rent after Atiak sub-county the establishments at Elegu, where they will have to buy the people have garbage bins,” including the Government plots and erect new shops. he said. Bombs found in Gunmen rob

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