NRM Modernisation of Kampala Stockholm City major reason for initiating a toll system was due to motorised pollution. They gave in to the forces of nature. Prior they had made an elaborated study of the entire archipelago environmental impact that involve; water, air, soil profiles, plants and not least people. The rests were very shocking.
For another time, Im writing to highlight the fate of Kampala region and its suburbs. The situation has reached alarmingly an unsustainable level. Im once again challenging, National Resistance Movement government, MULAGO MEDICAL SCHOOL, UTODA now a limited company, KCC, Ministry of Works, Housing and Communication, Ministry of Health, Ministry of Gender and Social Development, NEMA (has done its job) to start clinical studies on consequences of environmental pollution on human life in Kampala. It is estimated between 6000 8000 diesel guzzling minibuses are operating in this region of less than 1000 sq km. Uganda is registering more than 200 old Japanese vehicles per month. Kampala is increasingly accumulating pollutants of all types; toxic garbage, polythene bags, faeces besides lethal gasses like nitrogen oxide, sulphur oxide, carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide, lead, and hydrocarbons. Nakivubo Channel and wetland destruction, is posing a greater danger to people living along them. Dry periods come along with foul smell from stinking water logged in the channel. The philosopher king his excellence the president of the republic of Uganda in his missive in the new vision directed the parliament legalised National Environment Management Authority to hear stay the eviction of wetland encroachers as NRM finds an amicable solution! One cant fail to be flabbergasted and question the intention of this regime. NRM is poised to completely destroy Kampala. It might be too late to reverse the damage. Kampala is accumulating million tonnes of garbage on a daily basis. Market places are mostly affected, in the inner city and suburban markets. At St. Balikuddembe, Karelwe and Natete Markets vendors are now openly opposing the abolition of market dues! Garbage and filthy is chocking them. Today Saturday 6 may 2006, Ive been in Natete and a downpour left the sceptic tank pouring its content in the public road drainage to the disgust of the dwellers. That is the major road to Rwakitura. Kampala has no sewerage system at all. If it exist its only 8% of the 196 sq km that Kampala covers. Ntinda ministers village has a lagoon to empty its shit. Even a ministers village cant be connected to major sewer lines. A six square kilometre Nakivubo wetland has been reduced to just a third. Human settlements, are coming up everywhere as NRM human settlement policy! MoWHC and MoWLE are very silent on the matter. Its NEMA, KCC and the Local Government doing the needful, whenever they get governments blessings. Unplanned human settlements are equally impacting negatively on the population living in Kampala. Its a gradual process that will see an area extending as far as Mukono, Entebbe, Buloba and Matuga affected in the same manner. Children among others are the most affected; taxi drivers and city dwellers working in highly motorised corridors are equally affected and more so women. During dry spells, motor vehicles stir dust that creates a canopy of dust over the city. They emit diesel fumes and particles hanging over Lake Victoria. With deliberate destruction of Lake Nalubale, with solid waste through Nakivubo channel and particulate particles an ecological imbalance of this once beautiful peninsula is a reality. Last week, one news media reported cancer cases at Mulago general hospital are on the increase. However, the journalist who filed the report did not clearly, detail explanations of the causes and cluster population affected. In the news segment, majority images were children, with half limbs and others rotting, cancer eating them away. The physicians appeared to be helpless as they blamed the problem on lack of facilitation. Though the physicians were point focused, the problem is deeper. The facts are now becoming very clear. Medical doctors in and around Kampala are struggling with some rare coughs, fevers and other diseases among the children and adults. There appears to be no medication that can cure these strange diseases. I for one, in the past one and half year, has suffered three times of very rare coughs resulting in severe headaches and very high fevers. Prompting me to take test laboratory that have nothing but some sort of bacteria infection, which may be, was not readily understood. On top of that, Indians (investors) are bringing in expired drugs and one of the Indian was recently relived of his duties from his executive directorship of Uganda drug whatever and discontinued from practicing medicine in Uganda. As reported into the past, any person who has not been in Kampala for years will get severe headaches and sneezes combined with strange coughs on contact with the polluted air. City children are getting very strange eye, ear and nasal infections as the story told to me by my contact medical doctor. One can only be redeemed with a cocktail of drugs. Cough, bacteria, flu the list of drugs is just endless. Professor Walubo must be really disturbed by this terrible development. The government of Uganda by proxy is involved in a gradual gassing of Ugandans. If the world condemned Hilter of gassing Jews, why shouldnt the Uganda government be held responsible for keeping the situation as it is in the city? My interviews with taxi drivers allege that Uganda taxi drivers & operators association now a limited company is an arm of the current regime. A reason for taxi drivers helplessness and the status quo remains. Kampala is a combination of hills and valleys, a perfect location to unconsciously kill off people through toxic gas poisoning. Toxic gases are trapped in the valleys and the building stance going on into the city with box unpacket to lock dangerous gas in, it is only exacerbating the dangerous situation, as there are no air corridors left to dissipate toxic air concentration into Kampala. Nor is the government very much committed to establish industrial locations. To compound the grave conditions, placement of industries is in the suburbs of the city. We are modernising a primitive society! Lastly, the government has completely no transportation policy and against that background have only aggravated, the situation by importation of old vehicles, a good number of them without catalysers. These vehicles consume thousands of litres of leaded and carcinogenic fossil fuels. NRMs energy policy with hundreds of power generators spiting out toxic gases, the condition is becoming critical. Worse still the creation of the Northern by pass along the Lubigi - Nsoba wetland is a final assault on the Impala habitats. Fell Citizens rise up, to save our people from further destruction by a terrible regime. Bwanika. 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/ The above comments and data are owned by whoever posted them (including attachments if any). The List's Host is not responsible for them in any way. ---------------------------------------
