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| a cyclist fidgeting to ride over the remains of the collapsed bridge |
When
leadership after leadership comes and goes with less or no improvement on the
delivery of services in some renown problematic areas, one is left wondering why?
For a long time now, the people in
Kyarumba Sub County,Kasese District have suffered with poor road network which has continuously
made it difficult for farmers to connect to the markets outside Kyarumba, and,
for the general community to move and do their other businesses especially
during the rainy season.
I can
remember clearly since Hon. Bihandi’s time, then Rev. Kitaghenda’s time and now Col.
Mawa’s the bridge connecting Kyarumba to Kisinga has always broken down and
left everyone (community and development partners) stuck and sorrowful! Should we say this office of the LCV Chairperson has failed on its mandate to lobby for better roads in the district.
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| photo of the eroded bridge |
Last
month RIC-NET and KRC staff on a mobilization exercise of farmers for the
market information symposium were cut
short on their journey because the bridge in question had again broken down and
the make shift bridge that had been put across couldn’t allow for vehicles to
pass.
According
to some of the community members found at the bridge, they are now “used” since
the district doesn’t seem to care; “twabiri
beghera ekabada yetu, nibya kandi ibana balemi bethu abakatuleka muyu, mbinu
nihabweribya isibikerenu, kyekikaleka ibatatufaku”. Literally meaning, we
are used to being in our land locked place, yet we know that our leaders are responsible
for this. May be they do not care because they do not live or come from here.
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| photo of the eroded bridge |
It is
my appeal to the leaders and all you development partners that some permanent solution
to this bridge should be found. Because soon or later even the other bridge
through Kabirizi will be in the same state since the community shared that it
was in an alarming state too.
