Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Kampala Capital City Authority-KCCA law enforcement officers are struggling to maintain standard operating procedures – SOPs while carrying out their duties in the city. The officers working with police often engage in running battles with vendors who operate illegally on the streets of Kampala. …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni has confirmed the appointment of lawyer Dorothy Kisaka as the new Executive Director of Kampala Capital City Authority-KCCA. This is according to a letter addressed to the Minister of Public Service Wilson Muruli Mukasa, by the chairman of the Public Service …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The ongoing road works being undertaken by Kampala Capital City Authority under the Kampala Institutional Infrastructure Development Project 2 (KIIDP 2) stand at 25 percent completion. Eng. Stephen Kibuuka, the KCCA project coordinator says the percentage covers majorly low value works like transfer of …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The acting Deputy Executive Director of Kampala Capital City Authority-KCCA Sam Sserunkuma has called upon the authority’s law enforcement team to avoid destroying people’s merchandise during their operations. Sserunkuma says the job of the team is not to destroy merchandise but to maintain order …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Weak laws have been identified as the biggest challenge to the efforts to protect and preserve historical buildings and monuments in Uganda. Conservationists say proprietors of historical buildings and monuments are at liberty to do whatever pleases them since the legal framework doesn’t compel …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Kampala Capital City Authority-KCCA has asked the High Court Land Division to set aside a temporary order suspending the construction of Kabuusu-Bunamwaya-Lweza road. The Deputy Registrar of the Land Division, Flavia Nabakooza issued the temporary orders in response to an application by Rashid Ssenyonjo …
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Entebbe, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | A meeting of top government officials is underway at State House Entebbe to discuss the possible reopening of the remaining sectors of the economy, as the President prepares to speak to the Nation today. The government started easing COVID-19 restrictions a month ago, after …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Private School owners in Kampala Central Division have petitioned Kampala Capital City Authority-KCCA seeking a waiver of property tax and trading license for at least two years to enable them to recover from effects of COVID-19. The schools, organised under Kampala Central Private Schools Owners …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Taxi drivers in Kampala are accusing traffic police officers of extorting money from those found driving on routes other than those specified on their route charts. They reportedly target taxis with no displayed route charts on the windscreen. The government, through Kampala Capital City Authority-KCCA …
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Same old solution proposed, same disagreement raised Kampala, Uganda | PATRICIA AKANKWATSA | Kampala City managers, experts and interested residents on July 07 witnessed the virtual launch of the Global Labour Institute (GLI) report titled; Urban Public Transport System: Understanding Kampala’s Para transit Market Structure. The discussion that followed focused …
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