News coming in from the northern district of Amuru indicates that an elderly couple is in trauma after losing over 1.6 million shillings to termites.
Bicentina Alal and her husband Tito Okema are residents of Kali-Kali village in Rec Iceke parish in Layima Sub County. The couple has been saving their money in a metallic box for a period of three years.
They had hopes their saved money will be used to sustain them in this difficult time of the lockdown only to find out the paper notes were already destroyed by termites.
The damaged notes are in the denominations of 20,000 (35), 50,000 (10), 10,000 (36) and 5,000. Some of the notes are damaged beyond recognition.
Alal told journalists that they have been saving their earnings from the sale of papyrus mats, dried cassava chips, crops, mingling sticks, poultry and domestic animals.
Okema clarified that they neither have bank accounts, sim cards nor even subscribe to the village SACCOS where they can safely keep their savings.
“It was about one million shillings plus, the money was to help me with sickness and for the children. I cannot now do anything because the money is already spoiled, if it can be changed, I want to be assisted if it can be. Me I don’t have any other work, I am a farmer ever since childhood,” he said.
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