The Lord Mayor ofKampala, Hajji Erias Lukwago has set up a committee to find out how 800 million shillings were used to evict vendors from the city streets.

Lukwago says that there is no way how the KCCA director, Jenifer Musisi Semakula could have used 800 million shillings in evicting vendors. However a source in KCCA accounts department told us that out of the 800 million shillings, only 88 million shillings was used in eviction exercise and the remaining balance cannot be accounted for.

Lukwago says that negative forces fight him wherever he asks for accountability of such public funds. He says that there would be no pothole if the public funds at KCCA were not being embezzled. Lukwago says billions of money disappear in KCCA coffers every single day.

 President Museveni not so long ago told the citizens that the government created the post of city executive director and that of Minister forKampalato fight graft inKampala. However desipite the creation of the above posts graft is on increase in Kampala and in Uganda as general. In fact one can conclude that 85% of the Uganda public officials and civil servants are corrupt.

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The latest is tension between Kampala City Lord Mayor Erias Lukwago and KCCA Executive Director, Jennifer Musisi over decisions made.

This has now spilled over to the council and committee meetings, with Lukwago halting their sittings indefinitely over what he describes as failure by top leadership in respecting his decision on pertinent matters.

The committees affected by his new directive are the standing and oversight committees of the authority.

Lukwago says the committees have been rendered idle, since their decisions are always ignored.

He says their powers have been usurped by the city Executive Director, whom he says is running the authority single headedly.

The lord mayor is also questioning the absence of the physical planning authority, which is supposed to be charged with ensuring implementation of the master plan.

He questions who is directing decisions to demolish buildings in the city in the absence of the planning authority.

Lukwago says the councilors have been sent on holiday to show discontent with the manner in which business is run but also save the tax payers’ money.

He says it’s useless for the councilors to remain in office being paid the tax payers when they are not doing anything productive.

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