Amolatar | Former Kyoga County Parliamentary candidate Felix Adupa Ongwech has advised residents of Alaro ward, Etam town council, to write to CAO demanding the repair of a tap water point.
The water source has been out of service for over a year.
Adupa gave the advice on July 22, 2024, while meeting with residents who had requested his assistance in speaking with the district.
The residents asked Adupa, who is also the president of the Transformer Cadres’ Association, an umbrella group of politicians who lost previous elections, to either repair their borehole or work on the out of use tap water system.
Adupa immediately told them to write a letter to CAO Paul Samuel Mbiiwa demanding an explanation for why the water point that serves approximately nine villages and Etam Health Centre IV has been down for a year.
Residents are currently forced to share Lake Kyoga’s water with animals.
“If CAO does not respond positively within 14 days, I will mobilise the funds to repair the borehole that the community had before it was converted into tap water,” Adupa stated.
Meanwhile, Polycap Ongang, an LC5 councillor, stated that no boreholes have been drilled in the area since the borehole was converted to tap water.
Ongang also stated that the community wants their borehole returned.
Odopo Nelson, Etam town council’s LC3 chairman, stated that they had visited district offices regarding the water crisis but received no responses.
The Ministry of Water and Environment, he claimed, has failed to secure land for a shs600 million tap water project in Etam town council.
Judith Okello, a resident and member of the village health team in Abwocol village, Etam sub-county, stated that due to a lack of water at the Etam Health Centre IV, delivered mothers are leaving without bathing.
She described the situation as “disturbing,” and noted that cases of dioherea had been reported.
Sophia, another resident, asked why the district dismantled their borehole rather than drilling their own.
Siviano Alani, an elder, stated that the older person has suffered more in the search for clean water.
He added that older people have become a burden because everyone is trekking long distances for clean water.
Amolatar district converted a few community boreholes into tap water points, according to information obtained by tndNews.
This was part of a shs120 million project launched in June last year to drill tap water points in nine villages and health centre IV.
It is also claimed that the tap water points operated for only three months.
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