Abbot Ouma told parliament that about 400 people have been attacked by the crocodiles, 240 people killed since 1998 of these 83 are children.

He noted that about 70 people killed have been killed in a period of a year.

He pleaded to government to procure water tanks to the schools of Bukhooli Islands to stop school going children from being eaten by crocodiles while fetching water from the swamps.

He asked government to construct a bridge between the swamps in the area to avoid children and adults crossing these swamps from being attacked by crocodiles and to also compensate the families of the victims of crocodiles.

The speaker of parliament Rebecca Kadaga promised the matter to be investigated and a solution is found.

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The Uganda minister of state for local government Perez Ahabwe while presenting the proposal for the creation of new counties to Uganda Parliament on Wednesday says the new counties will help improve representation and ease administration of the areas.

Uganda Parliament

The new counties are Dodoth West County in Kaabong district, Bunyole West County in Butaleja district, Agule County in Pallisa district, Bukooli Islands County in Namayingo district and Ikiki-iki County in Budaka district.

The newly created counties mostly curved out from newly created districts will add five new Members of parliament in the already congested Uganda Parliament.

Experts believe that the new counties will increase administration costs and strain Uganda budget which is already strained with high administration costs.

Uganda already has over 90 districts which comes with huge administration costs because it automatically creates new offices like the Chief Administrative office, District chairperson and Woman MP among others.

Solomon Akugizibwe, Ultimate Media

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