KABAKA’S LAKE BEING A HUB FOR DRUG Addicts.
Kabaka’s lake is the largest man made lake in Uganda, located in Rubaga division kampala .
It occupies 2square killometres and it is about 200 feet deep on average. To date it is one of the 2 excavated lakes in East Africa and one of the biggest of the kind in Africa.
It is meant to attract tourists but instead its being misused by people who come to work and enjoy the beautiful scenary around the lake by taking drugs and Miira is the commonly sold and used drug around Kabaka’s lake.
Deo a student of ICT at St. Lawrence university says that the kingdom of Buganda isn’t caring for the lake hence providing a conducive environment for those drug addicts he also adds that it is as a result of unemployment and low standards.
Frank Muyanja also a student of journalism and mass communication at St. Lawrence University says that people who work around Kabaka’s lake work the whole day and late night hence taking miira to keep them awake the whole night in order to work well without dosing he also added that it increases man power hence making them good in bed.
However, Kabaka’s lake has also been a place where people do some good businesses like washing cars, selling maize and others.
In this lock down the businesses have alot bit declined and a few are now earning, Namutebi Doreen is a mother of four selling maize at the lake side narrates her story though she didn’t allow us take her picture.
She has worked around the lake side for more than one and a half years, she entered the business of selling maize just after the first phase of Corona virus in the month of May 2020.
Coming from Masaka to Kampala wasn’t the biggest problem but where to stay, she found a hard life to cope up with and therefore decided to go back in the village and get maize to sell. Earning a little to feed her little kid aged 4 years was her aim because the husband got stuck in the lands of Gishu during the first lock down and till date he has never been back home.
Nomatter the situation, Doreen has never failed to move on. Selling maize is her daily work where she has managed to earn atleast 10,000# per day. But in this lock down she says that the business isn’t still earning like it was but she still earns for a daily income to provide food to her and the kids.
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