{"id":11150,"date":"2026-05-04T09:53:26","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T09:53:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/?p=11150"},"modified":"2026-05-04T10:15:18","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T10:15:18","slug":"heavy-hailstorm-destroys-crop-gardens-houses-in-kigorobya","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/2026\/05\/04\/heavy-hailstorm-destroys-crop-gardens-houses-in-kigorobya\/","title":{"rendered":"Heavy Hailstorm Destroys Crop Gardens, Houses in Kigorobya."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>By Johnson Kanyesige<\/em><\/p>\n<h1>Heavy rains combined with hailstorm on Sunday left behind a trail of destruction in several villages of Kisukuma Sub County in Kigorobya County in Hoima district.<\/h1>\n<h1>The affected villages include Haibaale, Kyakasato, Kyakayaya, Kikonkona, Bukona among other areas.<\/h1>\n<h1>Information available reveals that the heavy rains started at around 6pm and de-roofed at least six houses and destroyed crop gardens like bananas, maize, beans, and tobacco among others.<\/h1>\n<h1>Vincent Ntegeka a resident of the area revealed that they are currently stranded and asks local leaders and government to come to their rescue because they are likely to be hit by famine if no help is extended.<\/h1>\n<h1>Jackson Mulindambura, the district councilor for Kiganja sub county has confirmed the level of destruction is immense and now wants the district disaster committee to camp in the area and assess the impact of the hailstorm such that they can make a report to present to the office of the prime minister for relief.<\/h1>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Johnson Kanyesige Heavy rains combined with hailstorm on Sunday left behind a trail of destruction in several villages of Kisukuma Sub County in Kigorobya County in Hoima district. The affected villages include Haibaale, Kyakasato, Kyakayaya, Kikonkona, Bukona among other areas. Information available reveals that the heavy rains started at around 6pm and de-roofed at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":11155,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,9],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-11150","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bunyoro","8":"category-news"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11150"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11150\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11154,"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11150\/revisions\/11154"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}