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BUKWO: A section of concerned residents of Bukwo town council in Bukwo district have demanded for immediate exit of Water Umbrella organization one of the ministry of water and environment departments managing piped water system in Bukwo district.
This follows after the department failed to protect a water reserve tank when unknown persons went and contaminated the tank with a chemicals.
On Wednesday, a yet identified person accessed the tank that supplies piped water to the whole town council, opened it up and washed the spray gun with chemicals inside the tank.
The team from the water Umbrella Mbale rushed to close the tank from distributing water but the community had already consumed water for the whole day.
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Joel Mongusho a resident urged the government to deploy another service provider like National water and Sewerage cooperation to take charge of water system in Bukwo.
“This is a sign that this department under the ministry of water and environment does not have the capacity to protect the lives of people imagine how can a stranger gain access to the tank which is supposed to be out of bounds for anyone and watch a spraying gun inside the clean tank”-Mangusho questions.
Rose Chemutai another resident says she’s feeling so weak ever since she took the water.
“I want to go to Kapachorwa for general check up because am afraid of the contaminated water that I took”-Chemutai say
Deneth Ngabirano the manager of Water Umbrella confirmed the water was contaminated by someone who he claims they have arrested and handed over to police.
Ngabirano who first attacked the media claiming they are only interested in negative reporting about the ministry of water later said they have closed the system and poured all the water from the tank.
“We are waiting for the chlorine to wash the tank”-he revealed.
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