By Micheal Atwakiire
Sheema North constituency Member of Parliament (MP) Naome Kibaaju Ntebekeine on Tuesday donated 12 tonnes of posho to the Sheema district COVID-29 task force against Coronavirus to help vulnerable families in her constituency.
While delivering the relief food, Kibaaju asked the Task Force to select only 15 vulnerable families from each village in Sheema North and give them five kilograms each family.
She also pledged 6 tonnes of posho to boda-boda riders, one tonne of maize seedling and over 1000 masks for elderly persons.
“Some of My beloved people of Sheema North are suffering because of this lockdown. I have been told that some especially those who used to depend on their daily income businesses are now facing it rough. But I requested chairmen LC ones to choose the most 15 vulnerable families in their villages such that we can help them for a mean time,” Hon Kibaaju said.
He added that “my sons and brothers whose their business is boda-boda, I have already started packing 6 tonnes of posho and probably by next week, they will have received it too.
I sat down I thought of how we can solve this problem of hunger in our families, therefore I’m going to give people of Sheema North one tonne of maize seeds for planting such that they can get what to harvest in the next season, ” Kibaaju said.
She later urged the public to follow presidential directives and sensitise their friends to do the same saying that the disease is more dangerous where she pledged to deliver free masks to all people of Sheema North above 65 years as they are still waiting for those that will be given out by the government as president promised in his 14th address to the nation about corona virus.
Sheema district RDC Frank Kyereere, who doubles as chairman Task Force, thanked Kibaaju for her initiative of donating planting, seeds saying that it will save people from depending on begging and crying for food from the government.
He also praised Kibaaju whom he said that she once donated Shs2M , washing materials and bars of soap at all trading Centres in Sheema North, plus returning the Shs20M COVID-19 money.
