Part of its closure was to pave the way for the construction of a permanent bridge using a two-way box culvert in the 400-meter swampy section of the road, which had been cut off when floods devastated the area last year.
Pajule Sub-County Chairperson, Brilliant Tito Okello told URN in an interview that Too-Olanya has been flouting the guidelines of NUSAF in the district this jeopardizing its implementation.
The deceased, identified as Matilda Adong, a resident of Lwala village in Puranga sub-county reportedly ingested poison, after a brawl with her husband David Opira.
The contest emerged after the creation of Kitagwenda district in 2019, a result of which, the new leadership demarcated the 450-hectare quarry as part of Kanara Sub County, rejecting an earlier report which placed the quarry in Nkongoro parish which is part of Kamwenge district.
More than 200 people in Luwalinga and Lamdogi cells in Central Division, parts of Pandwong and Pager Divisions were affected by the Wednesday night floods. They comprised of illegal settlers in the gazetted wetland along the river banks and those outside the wetland boundaries according to reports from local leaders.
