Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Kampala City Resident Commissioner-RCC Hussein Hud has said that street vendors have until 10th January 2022 to vacate the streets and take up available space in markets. Hud who was addressing the press at the Uganda Media Center says that vending and hawking is …
Read More »KCCA speaker accuses CEC of conniving with technocrats to frustrate council business
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Kampala Capital City Authority-KCCA council degenerated into chaos on Tuesday as two Executive Committee members and the Speaker clashed over failure to present the Authority’s Annual performance report. This was part of the three key items listed on the day’s agenda. The others were tabling …
Read More »‘KCCA must enforce Non-Motorized transport’
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPEDNENT | The Ministry of Works and Transport has asked Kampala Capital City Authority-KCCA to enforce Non-Motorized Transport along Namirembe road. In 2018 KCCA started construction of Uganda’s first non-motorized transport corridor which stretches from Namirembe road through Luwum street to Entebbe road. The corridor was …
Read More »KAMPALA: 3,300 buildings face demolition
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Kampala Capital City Authority -KCCA has earmarked 3,300 buildings in its five divisions for demolition if the owners do not move to rectify the queries on them, including getting the proper and documented approval of their plans. This was announced by KCCA deputy executive …
Read More »KCCA commits to pay casual workers salary arrears
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Kampala Capital City Authority-KCCA has said that they will pay all their casual workers who have gone without pay since mid-September 2021. Over 2,500 casual workers comprised of street cleaners, drainage desilters, and garbage loaders have not been paid despite continuous demand and petition to the …
Read More »MPs want KCCA audited over Shs3 billion for street children
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Legislators have called for an audit into Kampala Capital City Authority’s (KCCA) expenditure of the Shs3 billion allocated for rehabilitation, removal, tracing and resettlement of Karimojong children on the streets of Kampala. While meeting KCCA officials, led by the Executive Director Dorothy Kisaka, the Committee on …
Read More »SECURITY: Relocation of Kampala city vendors starts next week
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The relocation of street vendors to gazetted market places will start next week, Kabuye Ky’ofatogabye, the State Minister for Kampala and Metropolitan Affairs has said. Speaking at the celebrations to mark 20 years of Kampala City Traders Association (KACITA), Kabuye said that the government …
Read More »Kampala minister sets remuneration structure for speakers
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Minister for Kampala and Metropolitan Affairs, Minsa Kabanda has set allowances for speakers and their deputies at City Hall and the five divisions of Kampala. Just like their predecessors who were never paid, these political leaders have not received any pay since assuming office …
Read More »Over 100,000 undocumented refugees living in Kampala: Lord Mayor
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | There are up to 100,000 undocumented refugees in Kampala city, the Lord Mayor Erias Lukwago has revealed. He was launching a report by Friedrich Ebert Stiftung (FES), on rural-urban migration. According to Lukwago, Kampala Capital City Authority-KCCA discovered the huge number of undocumented refugees while …
Read More »Taxi operators losing hope of returning to Kampala Old taxi park
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Godfrey Mukalazi, a driver at Makerere stage says many of them are losing the hope of returning to the Kampala Old Taxi Park which was closed more than a year ago, to pave way for its renovation. The park was closed by Kampala Capital City …
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