Uganda, Nov. 7 -- President Museveni has sent a team to Western Uganda to monitor the implementation of his directive on Wetlands.

Maj Martha Asiimwe, the head of RDCs Secretariat in the Office of the President, told this publication on Sunday that they were sent by the president to monitor how RDCs are implementing the assignment given to them to tackle looming wetland degradation.

"President Museveni issued a directive which we must implement. We are assessing the damage and sitting with teams in respective districts to see how the directive can be implemented to protect wetlands and keep them intact and also restore those that have been destroyed so they can regenerate," Major Asiimwe said.

"We are moving to all wetlands and taking ...