Fishermen conflicts and safety in Lake Victoria and other water bodies

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2 Apr 2025 Asked by Millie Grace Akoth Odhiambo Mabona Cabinet Secretary for Interior and National Administration Oral Pending

Question

Could the Cabinet Secretary consider setting up a team to look at emerging issues in the lake? Almost every month, a fisherman is killed because people fight over scarce resources, and especially much more now that we have internationalised the practice with people undertaking aquaculture from other countries within the water. The water resource has become extremely small. Unless this problem is sorted out, we will have a major crisis. The Cabinet Secretary can tell us what the government seeks to do about this before we even talk about Uganda.

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