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Kampala Mayor not consult on KCCA re-branding

Gerald Businge — Mon, 10 Dec 2012 16:17:32 +0000

Kampala Lord Mayor Erias Lukwago has shown concern over the rebranding of the new KCCA.

Lukwago says he needed to be consulted before the executive director took such a decision.

He adds that several logos of the defunct KCC need not be changed due to the great symbolic significance.

Sound: Lukwago on rebranding eng/lug

This comes as KCCA launches its new brand- a move the authority leaders say is meant to differentiate its corporate image from that of the defunct KCC.

In this, colours of the authority as well as different logos have been changed.

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DP members join East African Legislative Assembly race

Gerald Businge — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 13:59:32 +0000

It seems factions in Uganda’s oldest opposition political party, the Democratic Party (DP) are not about to end soon. After the party was split recently over leadership row, we have been reliably informed that the party is once again divided over elections of a person to represent the party in the East African Legislative Assembly.

There are five candidates in the race but the top leadership of DP has to pick one out of the many. The candidates include DP legal advisor, Mukasa Fred Mbidde, former Makindye Division LC3 chairman, Deo Kijjambu, former KCC councilor representing Kisenyi, John Mary Sebuwufu, DP spokesman, Kenneth Paul Kakande and one Anselm Sebuguzi. But Kakande is being pressurized by Uganda Young Democrats to contest.

The issue of EALA elections has divided DP members to an extent that most of them have started fighting and abusing each other. All factions in the race claim that they have a blessing of the party president Norbert Mao. The elections come after the East African Court of Justice ruled that DP and other Uganda opposition parties represented in parliament have a right to have members in East African Parliament (EALA).

By Christine Kate

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Kampala City Council Authority to demolish billboards, houses in Kampala

Gerald Businge — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 12:35:29 +0000

Kampala Capital City Authority has issued another notice to property owners, outdoor advertising companies and the general public in connection with illegal billboards and other advertising tools in the city.

This notice served to ask persons or companies that erected illegal billboards and other tools to remove them within 28 calendar days from today.

The KCCA director for planning, George Agaba says that failure to remove illegal structures, KCCA shall not hastate to remove them as well as prosecution of the offenders.

However Agaba says that the people who built illegal structures with permission from the defunct KCC must contact him in room b106 at city hall.

By James Okello

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KCCA tells UTODA no plans to rehabilitate Taxi Parks

Gerald Businge — Sun, 20 Nov 2011 13:50:15 +0000

Kampala Capital City Authority has said that the plans to redevelop the main Taxi Parks in Kampala are on halt due to a suit in court filed by deleopers who were given plots to develop in the park.

The revelation follows the pressure by the Uganda Taxi Operators and Drivers Association (UTODA) asking KCCA to repair the parks, which it said are in a miserable state.

The Kampala Capital City Authority Executive Director, Jennifer Musisi says that the former KCC leadership sold a number of plots around the parks and the current leadership doesn’t know exactly the space remaining to operate the taxi park.

She says that KCCA shall start redeveloping the Taxis Parks after the cases in court are disposed of.

Musisi says that it is not good to spend billions of shillings on repairing the parks and all over sudden the ruling coming out that KCCA has developed the parts which do not belong to it.

She however says that KCCA will do some simple repair on the Taxi Parks to save the passengers and taxis of the mud during the rain seasons.

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Former KCC workers complain over newly created Capital City Authority

Gerald Businge — Thu, 12 May 2011 19:55:14 +0000

Former Kampala city council workers have started complaining of being denied access to the available job description under the newly created Kampala capital city authority.

Janipher Musisi Semakula was recently appointed as Executive Director of the new city authority under the Kampala city authority Act 2010.

Over 1500 employees under the former KCC now accuse the new director of implementing the law without meeting them.

According to one of the employees Alex Wasswa says there is panic at city hall as some people are not sue of their jobs under the new arrangement.

On March 1^st 2011 Kampala ceased to be a district and workers are to be subjected to fresh interviews by the ministry of public service.

They fear to loose their jobs, Semakula recently issued a memo that all workers and head of departments indicating that they have to first to undergo fresh interview and those who don’t wish to continue under the new arrangement shall be given termination package.

By Mugisa Isaac Mathias

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