Kampala Capital City Authority (KCCA) has finalized plans to turn Owino (St. Balikuddembe) market into a largest shopping mall in East and centralAfrica.

The sources at KCCA told our informers that the council plans to spend 28 million US dollars in the reconstruction of Owino into a modern and largest shopping mall.

The KCCA director, Ms Jenifer Musisi says that the shopping mall once completed would accommodate over 25 traders. She advised all traders in Owino to cooperate with KCCA in order to make its plan of modernizing Owino market a total success.

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It seems the Uganda Taxi Operators and Drivers Association (UTODA) is not leaving the Old and New Taxi Parks as it was earlier anticipated following President Museveni’s directive to Kampala Capital City Authority (KCCA).

It is said that the president on Tuesday sent a memo to the clerk to KCCA council and to the KCCA executive Director, Ms Jenifer Musisi indicating that the council should reorganize the transport system in Kampala between March and April and in May 2012 the powers to run the transport system should get back to UTODA.

The memo comes weeks after the chairperson of UTODA; Hajji Moses Katongole went to state house and pleaded with the president to save UTODA. According to sources in KCCA, Museveni advises that eliminating UTODA may cause more turmoil in the KCCA transport system.

Museveni reportedly advised that the tender to run buses and taxis should remain with KCCA but KCCA should hire an organisation such as UTODA to implement the contract.

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She says that the commuter taxi drivers have no choice but to pay the 120,000 shillings if they want to remain in Kampala. Ms Musisi says that she will not be moved by the strikes the taxi drivers stage. The taxi drivers suggest that they are capable of paying only 70,000 shillings to the council.

Ms Musisi says that the request of the taxi drivers is unacceptable and whoever doesn’t want to pay 120,000 shillings should better leave the taxi business.

The KCCA director says that the council will impound all the taxis whose owners have not paid the tax rates.  Ms Musisi says that the new taxi fees will be enforced by UTODA and the interim taxi management committee.

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The parliament halted pioneer easy bus project during a meeting with the Kampala Capital City Authority (KCCA) Executive Director, Ms Jenifer Musisi and Lord Mayor of Kampala Erias Lukwago.

The woman MP for Kalungu district, Florence Kintu summoned the KCCA director and Lukwago to explain to MPs the circumstances under which Pioneer Easy Bus Company Ltd obtained a contract to operate in the Metropolitan area which includes Wakiso, Kampala and Mukono.

The MP said that their committee based on the submissions made by the KCCA officials to halt the contract of Pioneer Easy Bus Company.

The parliament launched investigations into the validity of Pioneer Easy bus company contract to operate in Kampala Metropolitan area following a petition to Parliament by leaders of Mukono and Wakiso districts seeking Parliament‘s intervention to inquire the legality of the contract pioneer Easy bus signed with KCCA.

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