OMORO – The death of the late Speaker of Parliament Jacob Oulanyah, has left more than 60 Village Savings and Loan Association [VSLA] members in shock and suspense having joined a housing and livelihood improvement project.
The late Oulanyah, who was also the Omoro County MP had organized thousands of his constituents in groups through which they would save money to buy iron sheets, doors and cement while he would provide free bricks for the construction of the houses.
The housing projects had by the time of the demise of Oulanyah supported Ajuri Primary School, less than 500 meters from his ancestral home, Catholic and Anglican churches in Ayomlony village with plans already underway to roll it out to the members of more than 60 Village Savings and Loan Associations [VSLA].
John Bosco Kidega, the Headteacher of Ajuri Primary School in Ayomlony village, Lalogi sub county in Omoro district says, the late had constructed three blocks of three rooms for housing teachers of the school.
Initially, Kidega says, the parents of the school had constructed four grass thatched houses for the 8 teachers which were never occupied because they were too small to accommodate the families of teachers.
Kidega says, during one of the school management committee meetings, they resolved to meet the late Oulanyah where they presented their challenge and he eventually constructed the three blocks with the parents tasked to provide aggregate, sand and labour while he provided the hydro bricks.
“We were hoping that he would complete the houses because currently, they still have not been plastered, painted and ceiling boards not yet completed. As a school currently, we don’t have an administrative block because the headteacher’s office is a store as well as a library. This is a request we had already presented to him and were only waiting for feedback, unfortunately we will not get this feedback”, Kidega sadly explains.
Douglas Peter Okello Okao, the Omoro district LCV Chairperson says, the initiative of the late looked at supporting members of the community whose only source of income was agriculture so that they can have decent housing.
Okello says, several houses in the district were burnt due to wildfires and this is among the things Oulanyah wanted to address.
At least 80 percent of locals in Omoro district are subsistence farmers according to a report from the district local government. The district has also in recent times reported several cases of houses being burnt mostly by wildfire.
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