KCCA to raid Jua Kalis over manhole cover vandalism
KAMPALA, UGANDA-The management of the Kampala Capital City Authority (KCCA) plans to raid Jua Kali dens in Kampala, as it emerged that they are vandalizing (stealing) the street manhole covers for scrap.
According to the city Executive Director, Ms. Jennifer Musisi Ssemakula, it is also a new problem facing Kampala City at the moment on top of the theft of street lights. "When we work on (cover) these manholes, I'm told the Jua Kalis come at night and steal them," Musisi told an Architects conference in Kampala before asking the architects to devise technologies that can help safe guard Kampala man hole covers.
She said they later smelt the iron bars into different products, which they sell to the local market. Among the products they produce from the smelted bars are the metallic doors, windows, school metallic beds and other metallic products."In our campaign to keep a clean city, we shall also start an education campaign to educate the city dwellers about the need for a clean city. Not to dump rubbish everywhere. Later the law will be implemented to errant city dwellers," stressed Musisi.
Kampala City is more than 130 years old. It was initially designed to accommodate 500,000 people. The city has a day time population of about 4 million people.
Being a developing city, there are many problems it faces. They range from garbage management, road maintenance, sanitation, traffic congestion, housing, unemployment, overpopulation and financial control among other issues.
The city recently passed a budget of about $68 million to crawl to modernization in the next few years.
Musisi was appearing before parliament, where she tabled a budget of over Ush2.5tn ($1m) to overhaul city roads and bring in new designs for better roads over five years. Musisi's budget was first tabled by her predecessor the former Kampala Town Clerk David Kigenyi Naluwayiro while speaking to the media earlier in the year, where he noted that about 85% of the roads in Kampala need reworking because their designs were made 66 years ago when the city was still very small.
According to the city Executive Director, Ms. Jennifer Musisi Ssemakula, it is also a new problem facing Kampala City at the moment on top of the theft of street lights. "When we work on (cover) these manholes, I'm told the Jua Kalis come at night and steal them," Musisi told an Architects conference in Kampala before asking the architects to devise technologies that can help safe guard Kampala man hole covers.
She said they later smelt the iron bars into different products, which they sell to the local market. Among the products they produce from the smelted bars are the metallic doors, windows, school metallic beds and other metallic products."In our campaign to keep a clean city, we shall also start an education campaign to educate the city dwellers about the need for a clean city. Not to dump rubbish everywhere. Later the law will be implemented to errant city dwellers," stressed Musisi.
Kampala City is more than 130 years old. It was initially designed to accommodate 500,000 people. The city has a day time population of about 4 million people.
Being a developing city, there are many problems it faces. They range from garbage management, road maintenance, sanitation, traffic congestion, housing, unemployment, overpopulation and financial control among other issues.
The city recently passed a budget of about $68 million to crawl to modernization in the next few years.
Musisi was appearing before parliament, where she tabled a budget of over Ush2.5tn ($1m) to overhaul city roads and bring in new designs for better roads over five years. Musisi's budget was first tabled by her predecessor the former Kampala Town Clerk David Kigenyi Naluwayiro while speaking to the media earlier in the year, where he noted that about 85% of the roads in Kampala need reworking because their designs were made 66 years ago when the city was still very small.
A cross-section of tour operators at the meeting in Kampala last week. (Photo by Paul Tentena)
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Indeed the politicians are killing the incomes of Ugandans whom they claim to fight for. They have not understood that that the more tourists we get the less the exchange rate. The KASITA group are not any different. They should understand that business is for us all. We all have to live. Politcs are over. The opposition should start planning for 2016