Masindi residents using mosquito nets

Residents of Pakanyi Sub County in Masindi district have turned the recent distributed mosquito nets into goal nets. This was yesterday revealed by Pakanyi sub country area councilor Kanaginagi Ateenyi during the gender budgeting and accountability dialogue organized by Forum for women in democracy (FOWEDE in Masindi town.

Kanaginagi noted that while carrying out the monitoring exercise, he found footballers at Kisindi farm in Pakanyi sub county using the newly distributed mosquito nets as goal posts nets.

He revealed that, many other mosquito nets beneficiaries in the sub county were found using the nets to brew local alcohol known as ‘kwete’.

He added that, the consumers of local brew are at high risk of contracting complicated diseases from the nets since they are sprayed with chemicals.