COMMENT: Museveni’s move on Bududa

Finally, as Daniel P. Aldrich, professor of Public Policy and Director of the Security and Resilience Program at Northeastern University writes; the best defences against disaster are social networks – the horizontal and vertical ties that connect people, encourage them to help each other, and knock on the doors of elderly people and carry them out of danger.  Relocation will destroy all that.

So instead of pushing for relocation, the Bududa population should be guided to become disaster resilient; including on deciding where to build and the type of houses, early warning systems, disasters response drills, and disaster kits. To reinforce this, they could be encouraged to mark anniversaries of the disasters so that they do not forget.