Joshua TB
01 June 1, 2016
Proprietors and managers of Businesses along Bananuka Drive are raising concern about raw sewage thats flowing through Open drainage channels along the street.
Bananuka Drive in Mbarara is home to several High end hotels inluding Pelican Hotel, Oxford Hotel, Romax Hotel, westland hotel and kash hotel,
The strret also has several eateries and several clinics all which have been affected by the smell of the sewage.
The effluent flows to Kiswahili cell In Kakoba Division Mbarara Municiplaity wheich has thousands of dwellers who are at risk of diseases like Cholera , dysentery, Typhoid ,from the sewage.
Dominic Owino, a Manager at Oxford Hotel In Mbarara Town says he has on several occasions written to kakoba Division authorities raising concern about the effluent but nothing has been done.
He says he has for teh last two years tried to get help but in vain.
David Mayanja , who Manages Pelican Hotel was cagey about the source of the sewage although all indicators point to the Hotel which is owned by former Mbarara municipality Mayor Wilson Tumwine.
Agroup of Bodaboda cyclists operating just outside Pelican hotel say the problem has been there since time immemorial but nothing has been done about it.
Herbert Nimusiima the kakoba Division health inspector admits that raw sewage has been running through open drainage water channels which are only supposed to carry runoff water during the rains.
He notes that bananuka Drive is not connected to the sewer line but plans are underway to construct a sewer line draining the street.
Nimusiima says the raw sewage is from a spillage at Pelican hotel but there has been a challenge since the premises are owned by a man who has been the political head of the Municipality for over 15 years.
Nimusiima says his office is going to write to the owners of Pelican hotel advising them to use cesspool emptier services in order to avert a bigger health problem.
Uganda spends over 360 billion shillings annually on the treatment of fecal oral diseases which are caused by improper handling and disposal of fecal material.