Over 300 residents whose houses got burnt on orders of the District Resident Commissioner Godfrey Tilutya appeals for accommodation and food reliefs.
Over 80 households at Bukiyindi village in Nairambi sub county where torched by police a month ago after Tilutya said their presence in community was illegal.
Tilutya claimed that much as they had been displaced by slides, they had taken too long without finding an alternative permeant solution and had started to commit crimes in the area such as having sex during day time and theft.
Efransi Mugabi, 76, an old single widow caring for six grandchildren whose parents she says passed way now sleeps in a temproly shelter made up of tarpaulin tied on the tree at the LCI chairperson’s home.
Mugabi and the minors lacks food forcing them to sleep on empty stomach.
Moses Basalirwa the Local Council-LCI Chairperson of Bukiyindi village appeals to good Samaritans come to their rescue at this time.
He notes that many of his residents have been forced to believe were accidently born in a country they claim to belong unless they are given justice.
He notes that majority sleep under the tree while others in people’s kitchens at the nearby villages of Namuziru, Kitiko and Bukimera.
The contested land on which the razed camp comprising of many destitute aged men, women and children was sitting belongs to National Oil Palm Project-NOPP.
NOPP District Spokesperson Wilson Sserunjogi says much as the period of six months they had given to these residents elapsed, they are not in rush to use the land neither they instructed the security committee to evict people.
The District LC5 Chairperson Adrian Ddungu reveals that they are still pushing for a permanent solution as they also mobilize resources to save others who are still sleeping in open.
He still wonders why also police officer assigned with this task failed to assess the dilemma they were landing these people into and until now they have been not held accountable.
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