People living and working in Kisoro municipality have been called upon to embrace the idea of planting at least one tree or flowers in hopes of attaining a tourism city status.
Kisoro municipality Mayor Ndyana Richard says laxity among the responsible offices to provide enough care to the number of trees and flowers already planted in Kisoro municipality is evident.
Ndyana says this is hampering Kisoro Municipality’s chances of quickly attaining a tourism status.
In the month of November, 2022, Rotary club of Mgahinga Kisoro in partnership with the Kisoro Municipal Council managed to plant over 1000 trees stretching from Mayor’s gardens in the center of town to Zindiro village along Kamonyi – Mutolere road in Northern division.
Tragically, it has been discovered that most of the trees planted either dried up or were stolen.
Mayor Ndyana says he has always set aside a small budget to cater for tree and flower planting and taking care of them.
He adds that any failures to manage the planted trees and flowers falls on the Kisoro municipality environment officer.
By the time of filing this report, the Kisoro municipal environment officer Anaklet Nizeyimana was not in office and his known telephone contact were not reachable.
Street Vendors and Garbage landfill.
Mayor Ndyana says, street vendors carrying out their trade along Kisoro-Kabale road near the old market is still a no go area however after the departure of former town clerk Sharifa Nakintu, they quickly returned.
He says this frustrates the efforts the municipal authority to plant and maintain beautiful flowers.
Nizeyimana Silas, the Kisoro municipality street vendor chairperson says Kisoro municipality needs to first work towards improving structures like houses before chasing street vendors.
In a related development, the leadership of Nyakabande Sub County are up in arms with Kisoro Municipality, claiming the landfill in their sub county is an insult to the residents.
The Nyakabande LCV councilor Godfrey Rukara says when the Municipal authorities bought land in Nyakabande at 75 million shillings, they were meant to believe that it was for agricultural purposes.
Rukara says the garbage dumped in the landfill is both detriment to the lives and crops of the people in the area.
Mayor Ndyana in response, says the garbage should be seen as a blessing in disguise as people can now carefully sort out manure for their crops in the garden.
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