Deputy Speaker Jacob Oulanyah says the parliamentary commission will provide tree seedlings to all legislators

Government has earmarked 15 billion shillings for national tree planting activities this year according to the state minister for environment Hon. Kitutu Mary Goretti

Kitutu was speaking after the head of delegation to the 21st session of the framework convention on climate change Hon. Lawrence songa laid his report in the house on the summit held held in Paris last year

Hon Songa read the report urging the government and other stakeholders to participate proactively against climate change which the minister of state for environment Kitutu agreed on.

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Deputy Speaker Jacob Oulanyah says the parliamentary commission will provide tree seedlings to all legislators and that they will be told when to plant by the National Forest Authority.

Oulanyah has also instructed the minister to present a substantive statement this Thursday on sand mining in Lwera wetlands which the Parliamentary committee on natural resources investigated in 2016.

The directive came after Hon Florence Namayanja asked government to report on the progress of implementing the parliamentary resolutions for various sectors citing the defiance by sand minors in Lwera wetland where mining of sand has resumed yet parliament had halted further activities in this area.

Government chief whip Ruth Nakabirwa promised to instruct the minister of environment to give parliament the action taken in response to parliamentary resolutions among of which is the halting of sand mining in Lwera.

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Member of Parliament for Mityana district, Judith Nabakoba

Government has pledged to increase water provision in Mityana following the drying up of most of the water sources in many Sub Counties of Mityana district.

This after the Member of Parliament for Mityana district, Judith Nabakoba, decried water scarcity in the district which has worsened for the last one week while at the floor of Parliament.

Nabakoba said that most wells and boreholes have dried up in most Mityana district sub counties which are water stressed some of which include;   Namungo ,Manyi, Sekanyonyi,Ganda ,Bulera , Kikandwa among others.

She noted that school going children are affected since they spend long hours while lining up at few water sources which have not dried up and have no time to be in classes.

Nabakoba asked government to urgently attend to the water crisis in the area so that more boreholes are drilled.

Mityana Municipality MP, Francis Zaake, also shared the same problem but doubted the minister’s promise to avail help.

The Minister of State for Environment, Mary Goretti Kitutu Kimono, however, attributed the water crisis in Mityana to unusual drought which has affected most of the water sources and promised to ensure that Mityana is catered for water provision to reduce the current water scarcity in the area.

She also asked the public against planting eucalyptus trees in wetlands and near waters sources to avoid drying up of water sources.

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