The recovered coffee huller
Bukwo Resident District Commissioner and LC V Chairperson have recovered a coffee huller and generator worth Shillings 500million. An unknown official reportedly hid the two machines in a bush house in Kabei sub-county in Bukwo district with plans of selling them to Kenya.
The huller is used to peel pre-dried coffee beans. Julius Chelimo, the Bukwo District LC V Chairperson, says that they recovered the machine with the help of a whistleblower. He explains that the Ministry of Agriculture, Animal Industries, and Fisheries delivered the coffee huller and generator to the district in 2013.
He, however, says that despite the fact the machine was never installed, the district wrote to the ministry in 2014 claiming that it had been installed.
“Since the huller machine was brought to Bukwo it has never been tested to work something we are wondering what was going on with our previous leaders,” he said.
According to Chelimo, there is no reason for the people of Bukwo to complain about the government for not supporting them, adding that many things were delivered to the district for public use but the public was never informed. This is the time Bukwo officials are recovering government property being hidden with the intention to sell in Bukwo.
On July 3rd, 2022, the Bukwo Resident District Commissioner, Samuel Hashaka Mpimbaza, and LC V Chairperson, Julius Chelimo recovered a grader hidden from the home of a civil servant with some missing parts.
In the same month, the officials discovered a milk cooler and generator valued at Shillings 300m being kept at the Uganda-Kenya border in Suam with intentions of being sold to Kenya. Mpimbaza says that many government properties meant to help improve the well-being of the community in Bukwo have been sold off by individuals.
“We are following all those equipment slowly by slowly and we urge the community to give information to the RDC and LC V’s offices on whatever they see hidden,” he said. Calvin Chemusto, one of the residents and coffee farmers wondered why they have been suffering with their coffee yet the government had sent a coffee huller to the district.
“Its really hurting most of us the people of Bukwo when you see how Government officials are messing up with everything that Government sends to help people in Bukwo sometimes I ask myself whether it was necessarily to have Bukwo district,”he said.
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