By Edward Byamukama<\/p>\n
Residents of Kagadi Sub-County in Kagadi district are counting losses following a heavy hailstorm that destroyed their crop gardens on Sunday evening.<\/p>\n
The most affected villages are Karambi, Kyagaranyi, Muhangi, Kenga, Nsugasugi, Kanyangoma, and other villages all in Kagadi Sub-County.<\/p>\n
The hailstorm which hit the Sub county destroyed gardens of cassava, sweet potatoes, coffee, and banana plantations. The rains also blew off the roofs of over 15 houses and injured 5 including 2 children.<\/p>\n
Electricity poles were also brought down by the heavy winds but did not cause any fatalities.<\/p>\n
Residents are now seeking for government intervention worried of looming famine that may hit their area.<\/p>\n
Frank Lubega the chairperson local council one for Kenga B village says all the crops that had been planted at the start of the rains were destroyed.<\/p>\n
He says that the hailstorm has caused fatalities and residents are homeless since many houses were demolished by the heavy down pour.<\/p>\n
The Kagadi Sub-County LC3 chairperson Matia Birungi Nyarwa, says that he has started compiling a report that will be presented to the area Members of Parliament to lobby for relief food from the Office of the Prime Minister.<\/p>\n
He advises locals to always plant trees from a distance far from their houses to reduce damages during heavy winds.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile the Sunday evening hailstorms also devastated properties in Ruteete town council, Mpeefu ya Sande town council and Kabamba Sub-County all in Kagadi district.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
By Edward Byamukama Residents of Kagadi Sub-County in Kagadi district are counting losses following a heavy hailstorm that destroyed their crop gardens on Sunday evening. The most affected villages are Karambi, Kyagaranyi, Muhangi, Kenga, Nsugasugi, Kanyangoma, and other villages all in Kagadi Sub-County. The hailstorm which hit the Sub county destroyed gardens of cassava, sweet […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":6881,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-6876","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bunyoro"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6876","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=6876"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6876\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6883,"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6876\/revisions\/6883"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}