Agency
President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni has assured landslide survivors that the government will provide them with two acres of land per family and enough money to construct better houses for themselves.
The President, who is in the Bugisu sub region in continuation of his performance assessment tour on the Parish Development Model (PDM) made the assurance on Wednesday as he paid an impromptu visit to Bunambutye, a government resettlement village in the eastern district of Bulambuli, where the victims of landslides are currently settled.
Last month, over 30 people lost their lives after devastating landslides swept through Kimono Village, Buluganya Sub-County in Bulambuli District, burying over 20 homes.
While addressing the survivors, President Museveni urged them to encourage their relatives still living in the disaster-prone mountainous areas to evacuate, assuring them that the government will find them alternative safe areas to settle.
Landslides in the mountainous areas of Bulambuli and other parts of the Bugisu subregion are a recurring natural disaster during periods of heavy rainfall, posing severe risks to the people living in these areas.
