By; Newsroom
As the search continues for the victims of the latest landslides in Mount Elgon area, questions still linger on whether there will ever be a permanent solution to this disaster.
At least seven people are still missing after they were buried by a mudslide on Monday in Bufupa parish, Masaba Sub County in Sironko district.
In Bududa, a district prone to landslides almost every year, the latest mudslide occurred in three villages in Bulucheke Sub-County displacing forty families whose houses were razed and livestock buried deep in the mud.
State Minister for Environment, Dr. Gorreti Kitutu, an Environment Management System specialist says there is need for a more sustainable solution or else people will continue to suffer as the government and agencies continue spending billions of shillings on emergency response. She suggests that 60% of Mount Elgon must be under forest cover if people have to continue living in that area like it is on the other side of Kenya.
As the government continues to seek a lasting solution to the mudslides in Bududa and other parts of Mount Elgon, some experts have suggested that government should help communities to cut terraces into the slopes and then construct cement bench drains in sensitive areas to channel water down the hills.
However Kitutu says that might not work much what is required is an agricultural policy in the area to avert loss of lives.
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