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Government is to construct 300 houses for victims of Bududa landslides who were resettled in Kiryandongo district.
Musa Ecweru, the state minister for Disaster Preparedness says that the houses will accommodate over 600 families.
Ecweru says that each of the displaced families will get a two-bedroom house that will be constructed on the land that each family received.
He says the government has procured over 20, 000 bags of cement, and three hydroform machines to kick off the construction exercise this weekend.
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The launch of the construction exercise comes amidst complaints by some of the mudslide survivors about their living conditions in Kiyrandongo.
Ecweru denies claims that some of the landslide victims had died as a result of the poor living condition.
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He says the government has spent over thirty million shillings to plough over 400 acres of land to prepare each of the families for the planting season.
The victims were displaced on March 2010, when a huge landslide struck the villages of Nametsi, Kubewo and Nangobe in Bududa. More than 80 people were buried by the landslides.
