According to an eye witness Jimmy Tusiime, the accident involved a Baby Coaches bus registration UBA 756Z which collided head-on with a Fuso lorry registration number UBC 049B.
Jovia Asiimwe, one of the concerned locals from Karambi village says that trekking 20 kilometers for people especially pregnant mothers to Kihihi health Centre IV is a very big burden. Asiimwe says that what annoys them most is they when they reach at Kihihi Health Centre IV health workers start accusing them of not visiting nearby health Centre IIs and III, yet there is nothing.
Tinah Kyomuhendo, a Community Health Worker at Kicheche health centre III, says that the facility no longer receives patients suffering from diarrhoea and dysentery.
Gertrude Tibakanya, the Kyenjojo District Education Officer, says that 537 teachers are needed in the 123 primary schools while 95 in the nine secondary schools in the district.
The deceased has been identified as Samuel Black, a resident of Katoma village in Isandara B Parish, Buititi Sub County in Kyenjojo district. James Kawalya, the Kyenjojo District Police Commander, says their findings show that Major Brown Mwebesa was speeding at the time of the accident.
More girls are reportedly dropping out of school as a result of early pregnancies and marriage while the boys drop out to engage in agriculture. Records indicate that teenage pregnancies in the district stand at 30 percent, higher than the national rate of 25 percent.
Lydia Tumushabe, the Rwenzori Regional Police Spokesperson, identified the dead as Michael Amanyire and his six year-old son Chris Junior. The other is a Korean national whose identities are not yet known.
Electoral Commission officials led by Barbara Mulimbira, the Kyenjojo district registrar and Margaret Kugonza, the registrar Kyegegwa, went to Kyenjojo FM and Kyenjojo Development radio in Kyenjojo town at around 1pm to encourage voters to participate in the elections following a low voter turnout.
Police in Kyenjojo district are investigating circumstances under which a Special Police Constable reportedly went on rampage and shot two people dead.
High population growth in Kyenjojo district is causing scarcity of agricultural land, farmers say. Tea and maize are the major crops grown in the district but farmers are facing difficulties growing the crops on a large scale because of the scarcity of land.
