Lira City secures land for abattoir
LIRA– The authorities of Lira City East division have secured eight acres of land at Ayago ward, to construct a modern abattoir.
The development came after environmentalists condemned the current abattoir located at Baronger village, Lira City that its sanitation is wanting and the environment is unhealthy for slaughtering animals.
The abattoir is sitting in a slum area but it is the only slaughtering area in the city with a population of more than five hundred thousand people.
Animals slaughtered in the abattoir are supplied in small butcheries in Lira main market, Kakooge, Ojwina, Ireda and Rainbow among others. The City relies entirely on the abattoir as a potential source of revenue.
“This continues to make disposal of the remains of animals slaughtered a big problem to the management of the abattoir and markets,” says a source who declined to be named.
The Mayor Lira City East division, George Okello Ayo confirmed that they secured the land for the construction of the abattoir and that the land in the previous location will be disposed off to any willing buyers.
The land, according to Okello Ayo, belongs to John Charles Akeny, a former councillor of the Railway division of Lira municipality now [Lira City].
“We shall raise money for the sale of the current abattoir land and we use it to buy the land for the establishment of a modern abattoir,” he says.
Five years ago, the area residents protested the decision by the Railway division now [Lira City East] for the giveaway of the land measuring 80 acres to private developers.
Part of the land is being occupied by more than 50 families but according to an official in the City, the land belongs to the government and those residents don’t have authority over it.
Okello Ayo says, the land will be plotted and relocated to potential investors for the establishment of factories.
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