Uganda: Iganga Abattoir Has No Latrine

14 October 2009

Kampala — IGANGA town abattoir has no latrine. "In 2000, Hussein Abdullah was contracted by the town council to construct a pit latrine at the slaughter house. However, when he had almost completed setting up the structure, the town council defaulted on payments and he refused to finish the latrine," Abdu Tannafa, an attendant at the abattoir, told The New Vision on Tuesday.

The incomplete structure has been blocked with thorny twigs to stop customers and workers from using it. They instead go to the nearby bushes, he said. The slaughter house, located in Bikadho zone, was opened on November 1, 1995 by the then agriculture and animal industry state minister, Kezimbira Miyingo.

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