By Weswa Ronnie
NAMISINDWA
Rain Makers in Namisindwa district have asked authorities to pay them Shs10M warning that failure to do so means that road maintenance works especially in hard to reach Sub Counties like Mukoto and Tsekululu can’t go on.
The Rain Makers notorious for inviting heavy downpours and or stopping rain have put the district authorities on notice saying if they are not paid, the rains that are currently disrupting maintenance works will go on unabated.
This was revealed by Leonard Kitafuja, the Namisindwa District Chief Administrative Officer during the budget conference of 2025/26 today Monday, 18th November, 2024.
Kitafuja told Councilors who were complaining of undone roads in their Sub Counties that the district has tried but failed to complete maintenance works of roads in the Sub Counties of Mukoto and Tsekululu because of the heavy rains.
He adds that whenever the district engineer and his team attempt to take machines there, rain pounds the entire day.
Kitafuja says that rainmakers from those areas say that the district must pay them money before they can halt the rains until they finish the road works which the district has failed to do.
Perez Weswa, a councilor representing Bungati Sub County says that since the district poured murrum at his Tsekululu-Bungati road last month, it has not come back to finish its work leaving heaps of murrum on the road.
He says that this has worsened the movement of people and transporting agricultural products from those areas to the lower side.
In October, 2024, rain makers like Peter Makhala, Defasi Kuloba and Moses Watata all residents of Nasambi parish in Bumali sub county survived from being lynched by an angry mob of residents who accused them of bringing rains which disorganized the maintenance works on Tsekululu-Bumali road.
They were detained at Tsekululu police post but later given police bond.
