This follows fresh elections by the former taxi governing body yesterday that saw William Katumba replacing Hajji Musa Katongole.

Musisi says that the drivers already have leaders at each stage and KCCA will continue to work with these in running the taxi industry.

She also warns the new leaders against resuming the collection of money from drivers.

UTODA has always been run as a company drawing criticism from many drivers who always demanded that it should be turned into an association.

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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 KCCA lawyers led by Caleb Mugisha and Robert Kwanza have computed the figures of the money they want UTODA to cough to them.

Its contract expired on October 31, 2011.

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This comes after the court on Monday ruled that KCCA is free to take over the administration of Old and New Taxi Parks.

UTODA says that it is preparing to file an ordinary suit to block KCCA from taking over the taxi parks. The chairperson of UTODA, Hajji Moses Katongole says that they are to file an ordinary suit where the validity of the contract between KCCA and UTODA will be examined.

However the KCCA director Jenifer Musisi has told our informer that whatever UTODA does will not help it because the authority wants to take over the administration of the parks.

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When Tomusange and family got up with the taxi and squeezed into it they left the people who saw them wondering whether the former referee no longer has a car to drive. Others were overheard alleging that Tomusange owns an old Toyota Corona but his problem is that he no longer has money to buy fuel.

At entering the car, Tomusange and family chose to occupy the back seats and when our reporter came near him, the former referee looked so relaxed and easy. The UTODA scouts who saw him entering the car started chating with him before the taxi filled up and started off the journey to Mukono.

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When Tomusange and family got up with the taxi and squeezed into it they left the people who saw them wondering whether the former referee no longer has a car to drive. Others were overheard alleging that Tomusange owns an old Toyota Corona but his problem is that he no longer has money to buy fuel.

At entering the car, Tomusange and family chose to occupy the back seats and when our reporter came near him, the former referee looked so relaxed and easy. The UTODA scouts who saw him entering the car started chating with him before the taxi filled up and started off the journey to Mukono.

By Moureen Nakyanzi

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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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Katongole has also denied media reports that KCCA has taken over control of the daily management of public transport in Kampala.

Katongole further assured drivers that KCCA will have no choice but to renew the contract of UTODA when it expires on October 30^th 2014.

Katongole told the drivers in Kampala today that KCCA under the laws don’t have powers to collect revenue direct from taxi parks.

Katongole told drivers that the president and the government in general is backing UTODA to remain in the transport command in Uganda. Recently many drivers in Kampala protested against what they called mistreatment by UTODA.

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In a heated up meeting held today, the mayor and his councilors grilled UTODA’s lawyer Musa Kabega on the financial statements of the embattled taxi governing body which the lawyer resisted to submit to the council but Lukwago insists that failure for UTODA to comply, they will face the law.

Kabega defends his client that they have not intentionally failed to submit in their books of accounts to the council but want to go through correct procedures and will give in their accounts.

In a related development, some councilors are accusing UTODA for playing hide and seek and were calling for a council meeting to make a final council demission on UTODA and the way how public transport in Kampala should be governed.

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