Buvuma LC. V Chairman Calls for Census Extension on the Island
By The Public Lens
Buvuma LC V Chairman, Adrian Wasswa Ddungu has called upon government to extend the enumeration days for his district since most villages have not been counted due to the fact that an inadequate number of enumerators was allocated to the area.
According to the Chairman, the enumeration exercise is slow because the enumerators in the field are few, yet Buvuma Island is the largest island in the Buvuma Islands chain and has about 56 villages that are supposed to be counted.
“The villages and parishes that are in the census tablets are correct, but when they enter the sub counties and districts these villages are in, the tablet shows that the information put in is wrong, yet they are found in Buvuma, which is also challenging,’’ he revealed.
He also went ahead and complained that Lufu Parish in Nayirambi Sub County has seven villages, but only one was put on the list to be counted.
Wasswa also said Busamizi Sub County and Buwema Sub County have many villages that do not appear on the list to be counted and have not even seen any enumerators in any village in the two sub counties.
observed that the tablets are still slow, hence why there are many villages that have not been counted yet, and the enumeration exercise has only two days to come to an end.
“We need the government to give us more days because many villages in Buvuma have not been counted due to a lack of resources like enumerators and tablets too,” Wasswa begged.
However, Patrick Mubiru, the Deputy Resident District Commissioner (RDC) in Buvuma, said that while it is true that there are villages that were not allocated enumerators, the exercise is going on smoothly despite challenges like a poor network and some islands and villages being far and scattered.
The Executive Director of the Uganda Bureau of Statistics (UBOS), Dr. Chris Mukiza, recently said that the government has extended the census exercise in the three districts of Kampala, Wakiso, and Mukono by one more day. However, the rest of the country will close by the stipulated date.
