Beloved Mayor, Congratulation!
- Sunday down pour left some dead, houses and shop submerged. Actually - some houses were floating vessels as traders stood inside them, carrying on with normal business as nothing has happened- Africa!? - As promised I’ve been around Kamwokya and further below as a “my car” touring Kampala city. A Bizarre Tourist. - And some one told me to keep quite because they “know what I write about”. Right, they knew and did no-thing about it? - Asked, what has Kampala City Council for an Urban Transport Programme i.e. a tram (Light Train) from Jinja, Mukono to Bujuko, from the Central Station to Makerere University / Mulago axis from Kampala to Entebbe? My Car - Noooooo Nothing! So what is KCC planning? EU funded bypass, latrines (PAPSCA) and …….I am coming to that. - Who have been Mayors of Kampala in the past 40 years – I shot back! And indeed who have been the ministers of local government for the past 20 years? - The Local Government Ministry allocates millions of development funds to the likes of Kampala City Council and indeed some money is sitting unused or spent on study tours or sub-standard contracts and seminars! - Have you been at Sir Apollo Kagwa Rd. near Delhi Graden Aah gardens indeed and the rats! In the City - Yes Kampala district is largest business region in the entire country – TAXES TAXES TAXES TAXES TAXES. UTODA collects Shs 200 million a month! 24 billions a year – where is the money? - Besides all types of tax levies; parking fees and I have to believe how the government has done nothing indeed. - From Kamwokya Kitoro thanks to tree slaughtering, Bwaise, Kawempe and Kololo can clearly be seen from all directions - the birds and corresponding nature can go to hell. - And adjoining hills before late will be no more – right, let open hill soils, deep gullies and all excavations be covered then. It is called landscaping. - No, we have world class open trenches (world war one type) is it water channels, to carry mud, garbage, sledge and slit all way down to Kamwokya Kitoro. - I have read about your crusade on tree planting. - I challenge KCC to come up with a map clearly detailing electrical lines, water/sewerage pipelines and telephone/internet infrastructure! - Does KCC have clear maps of public road reserves or not? Yes I mean land use maps - But …… don’t you think your planners are not telling you the right thing? I have investigated the pavements and road design. - Is work a poor workmanship and making money or sheer ignorance among pavement designers? - Which brings me to another question? - Madam speaker Sir, does KCC works department, have road testing and designing laboratories? - Madam speaker Sir (aah), does KCC works department have a pavement testing and designing facilities? - Let alone pavement design and construction guidelines? To whom it may concern! - Does KCC have architectural, building construction and testing laboratories i.e. structural, inbuilt and outside environment, sound and vibration, air pollution and circulation? - Does KCC have human resources, supervision facilities and on road construction? - How could a city road develop garbage dumping, potholes to such a level that a paved piece of asphalt only 30 centimetres, remain of a three or five meters wide road? - How possible there is no level pavement in town I meant city? - How possible can it be that flats in Kamwokya built way back almost 40 years are still looking the same? Kampala City Council has no money indeed YET Kamwokya is linking up with Bwaise in a mega slum sprawl. - That is called housing facilitation. KCC flats - Isn’t there a real problem? - I stopped over at the Bat Valley - the similarity at Makerere Kivulu is striking. It might also be a good research facility for social arts, is it called social sciences students! - Slumisation is with Kampala City. - What colour my eyes is dirty brown walls of mad extending as far as the eye can see and far away as the horizon extends. - Then comes the filthy dirt winding slum roads - Heeeere …………Africa becomes enigmatic. Government is made up of trees. - Well can KCC explain what, how and where there is guidance on Kampala City civil works? Bwanika [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.idrconsulting.com Bwanika ________ http://www.idrconsulting.com --> for your consultancy needs _______________________________________________ Ugandanet mailing list Ugandanet@kym.net http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/ugandanet % UGANDANET is generously hosted by INFOCOM http://www.infocom.co.ug/
