Residents of the overpopulated Iganga municipality are at great risk of contracting diseases arising from mountains of rotting garbage emitting a malodorous and pungent smell.
From downtown in Kikuubo, Katanga and Kanyogoga in Namwongo to Saza road, which is nearly impassable due to twin shackles of waste material, a whiff of stench can be caught about a kilometre away from the town.
The rubbish composed of a mixture of rotting vegetables, banana leaves, polythene bags and other nasty waste material collected from the market, covers almost an entire street and has not been collected for weeks by the underfunded municipal council. Motorists and pedestrians are forced to negotiate their way through because, in some incidences, the garbage is covering half of the road.
Meanwhile, the roadside vendors continue to trade in foodstuffs with flies hovering over the meat, vegetables and bananas on the stalls standing askew in the garbage. The available garbage trucks are garbage themselves and lumber the whole day while collecting the rubbish thereby causing traffic disruption.
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