{UAH} Lukwago and Kla Pple were teargassed frm day one to date, how could he perform?

Lukwago and Kampala voters were tear-gassed on the very day he was elected, how and when would Obbo expect him to perform in such circumstances? people, you must speak as though you have been in Uganda for the last 30 years. How is the development in other municipalities led by well-intentioned NRM people.

Listen to this: the selfish instinct of M7 dictated (by way of budgeting process) that Kampala, the capital city of Uganda be let to rot since Ugandans in it opted for opposition leaders. When it became too much, and he, as president for 30 years was actually the one suffering the shame of a filthy and smelly city, he as usual manipulated the local government Act to ensure he takes the city, like all other public institutions, under his armpit and with this, expand its budget . Not done, he realized, the Lord Mayor could share some credit for a changed facelift of the city, and he's now ensuring to finally cause total exit of the lord mayor and none of any opposition figure to share a thing about a changed Kampala or until like Rwabiramira or Ntege Ssebagala denounce opposition politics, WHAT A SELFISH DNA INTHIS MAN! And very surprising Obbo can't read it between the lines.       

On Fri, Nov 22, 2013 at 6:25 PM, George Okello <opallog@gmail.com> wrote:

Why break locks to the chambers? Or is it locks to Lukwago's offices?

George Okello

On 11/22/13, Rehema Uganda <rehemass@googlemail.com> wrote:
> Tumwebaze brings closer the council meeting to impeach lukwago frm thursday
> to monday next week.
>
> Musisi's aides break padlocks from the council chambers this afternoon.
>
> these guys are no longer ashamed of their unlawful actions.
>
>
> On Wed, Nov 20, 2013 at 8:58 PM, Ocen Nekyon <ocennekyon@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> http://www.monitor.co.ug/OpEd/OpEdColumnists/CharlesOnyangoObbo/Jennifer-Musisi-Lukwago-who-would-you-want-to-run-your-city/-/878504/2080528/-/m819cp/-/index.html
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> If you owned a city, who would you hire to run it; Musisi or Lukwago? -
>> Charles Onyango Obbo
>>
>> These quarrels over power in Kampala are pathetic. The "City Lord" Mayor
>> of Kampala, Erias Lukwago, who is elected by the good people of Kampala,
>> has been at war with Ms Jennifer Musisi, the Executive Director of
>> Kampala
>> Capital City Authority (KCCA), who is appointed by the President.
>>
>> Now a report by a government-appointed tribunal has found Lukwago guilty
>> of all manner of sins, and his political rivals want him impeached.
>>
>> President Yoweri Museveni has, historically, been frustrated by the fact
>> that the Opposition has always won the Kampala mayorship. But he is also
>> right that nearly all past mayors have failed to modernise and manage the
>> capital competently. This failure is partly because a mayor has to molly
>> coddle the people who help him win, and that is usually the city "masses"
>> –
>> the market women, hawkers, the working class.
>>
>> But the interests of the masses are often at odds with the city business
>> class. The hawker would like to ply his trade on the street. He does not
>> pay tax. He takes away business from the shop owners, who pay tax.
>>
>> The hawker does not own a car, so is not pained by potholes. The shop
>> owner has a car, and potholes mess him up. The guy who lives in Naalya or
>> Mbuya wants his garbage collected, the streetlights working, and water
>> running because they affect the value of his property.
>>
>> The guy who lives in a Bwaise slum has never had his garbage collected by
>> the city council and buys his water from a vendor. He probably doesn't
>> want
>> the garbage collected; does not want piped water in his house; or the
>> street to his joint tarmacked. This is not because he does not desire
>> those
>> things, but because as soon as those services become available, his
>> landlord will double the rent for his muzigo (one-room basic
>> accommodation)
>> – and he wouldn't be able to afford it.
>>
>> Leaving partisan politics aside, one can see the need for a Lukwago - to
>> give the residents of Kampala voice, and for Musisi – to maintain the
>> commercial value of the city.
>>
>> To solve this problem, London has the Mayor of London (the bubbly and
>> energetic Boris Johnson), the Lord Mayor of London (Fiona Woolf).
>>
>> The Mayor of London is equivalent to Lukwago. The voters of Greater
>> London
>> elect him in a popular vote. The Lord Mayor of London is the CEO of the
>> City of London Corporation, and is approximately equivalent of our
>> Musisi.
>> The City of London, if you may, is basically what you would call the
>> Central Business District (CBD). The Lord Mayor is elected by a smaller
>> group of fellows who have an economic interest in the City of London.
>>
>> The irony is that by calling himself Lord Mayor, Lukwago has diminished
>> his status. He should go back to the title as it used to be, the Mayor of
>> Kampala. Of the two, Musisi has been more effective.
>>
>> Her political critics say it is because she has the President's political
>> support and is able to more easily mobilise the resources to get the job
>> done, while the same president is busy undermining Lukwago.
>>
>> I admire Lukwago's courage, and believe his struggles have advanced the
>> wider cause of democracy. However, if I owned a city, I would give it to
>> Musisi, not him, to run. She has obviously done the better job.
>>
>> Whatever Museveni's actual motive for setting up KCCA and appointing
>> Musisi to lead it was, we should acknowledge that we have been left with
>> a
>> structure that can actually make Kampala great again. Nairobi has the
>> Central Business Administration, which is a business with a CEO. It
>> focuses
>> very narrowly on things that enable businesses to make money better in
>> the
>> CBD – security, traffic jams, parking, etc.
>>
>> You rarely hear about it, because it has mastered the art of working
>> quietly with whoever is mayor of Nairobi (lately Governor), and mostly
>> functions through lobbying. The Nairobi CBD is much better off for it.
>>
>> So the problem is not that this mix is wrong for Kampala, but rather that
>> it is too dependent on having the right president who then appoints the
>> right KCCA executive director, and that Kampala's voters will be rational
>> and elect an able mayor, not just cast an anti-government vote.
>>
>>
>>
>> If you owned a city, who would you hire to run it; Musisi or Lukwago? -
>> Charles Onyango Obbo
>>
>> These quarrels over power in Kampala are pathetic. The "City Lord" Mayor
>> of Kampala, Erias Lukwago, who is elected by the good people of Kampala,
>> has been at war with Ms Jennifer Musisi, the Executive Director of
>> Kampala
>> Capital City Authority (KCCA), who is appointed by the President.
>>
>> Now a report by a government-appointed tribunal has found Lukwago guilty
>> of all manner of sins, and his political rivals want him impeached.
>>
>> President Yoweri Museveni has, historically, been frustrated by the fact
>> that the Opposition has always won the Kampala mayorship. But he is also
>> right that nearly all past mayors have failed to modernise and manage the
>> capital competently. This failure is partly because a mayor has to molly
>> coddle the people who help him win, and that is usually the city "masses"
>> –
>> the market women, hawkers, the working class.
>>
>> But the interests of the masses are often at odds with the city business
>> class. The hawker would like to ply his trade on the street. He does not
>> pay tax. He takes away business from the shop owners, who pay tax.
>>
>> The hawker does not own a car, so is not pained by potholes. The shop
>> owner has a car, and potholes mess him up. The guy who lives in Naalya or
>> Mbuya wants his garbage collected, the streetlights working, and water
>> running because they affect the value of his property.
>>
>> The guy who lives in a Bwaise slum has never had his garbage collected by
>> the city council and buys his water from a vendor. He probably doesn't
>> want
>> the garbage collected; does not want piped water in his house; or the
>> street to his joint tarmacked. This is not because he does not desire
>> those
>> things, but because as soon as those services become available, his
>> landlord will double the rent for his muzigo (one-room basic
>> accommodation)
>> – and he wouldn't be able to afford it.
>>
>> Leaving partisan politics aside, one can see the need for a Lukwago - to
>> give the residents of Kampala voice, and for Musisi – to maintain the
>> commercial value of the city.
>>
>> To solve this problem, London has the Mayor of London (the bubbly and
>> energetic Boris Johnson), the Lord Mayor of London (Fiona Woolf).
>>
>> The Mayor of London is equivalent to Lukwago. The voters of Greater
>> London
>> elect him in a popular vote. The Lord Mayor of London is the CEO of the
>> City of London Corporation, and is approximately equivalent of our
>> Musisi.
>> The City of London, if you may, is basically what you would call the
>> Central Business District (CBD). The Lord Mayor is elected by a smaller
>> group of fellows who have an economic interest in the City of London.
>>
>> The irony is that by calling himself Lord Mayor, Lukwago has diminished
>> his status. He should go back to the title as it used to be, the Mayor of
>> Kampala. Of the two, Musisi has been more effective.
>>
>> Her political critics say it is because she has the President's political
>> support and is able to more easily mobilise the resources to get the job
>> done, while the same president is busy undermining Lukwago.
>>
>> I admire Lukwago's courage, and believe his struggles have advanced the
>> wider cause of democracy. However, if I owned a city, I would give it to
>> Musisi, not him, to run. She has obviously done the better job.
>>
>> Whatever Museveni's actual motive for setting up KCCA and appointing
>> Musisi to lead it was, we should acknowledge that we have been left with
>> a
>> structure that can actually make Kampala great again. Nairobi has the
>> Central Business Administration, which is a business with a CEO. It
>> focuses
>> very narrowly on things that enable businesses to make money better in
>> the
>> CBD – security, traffic jams, parking, etc.
>>
>> You rarely hear about it, because it has mastered the art of working
>> quietly with whoever is mayor of Nairobi (lately Governor), and mostly
>> functions through lobbying. The Nairobi CBD is much better off for it.
>>
>> So the problem is not that this mix is wrong for Kampala, but rather that
>> it is too dependent on having the right president who then appoints the
>> right KCCA executive director, and that Kampala's voters will be rational
>> and elect an able mayor, not just cast an anti-government vote.
>>
>> What might be a way out? Until everyone grows up, I suggest that we
>> suspend one-man/woman-one-vote for the Kampala mayor for 10 years.
>> Instead,
>> we should have Kampala's mayor elected by an electoral college of city
>> councillors.
>>
>> Secondly, the president should not appoint the KCCA executive director,
>> but should delegate that function to a joint assembly of the Kampala City
>> Traders Association (KACITA) and Uganda Manufacturers Association (UMA).
>>
>> Hopefully this will shift the mayor's and KCCA chief's incentives, and
>> also take raw and divisive politics away from City Hall.
>>

>> *cobbo@ke.nationmedia.com <cobbo@ke.nationmedia.com> & @cobbo3 (Twitter)*

>> If you owned a city, who would you hire to run it; Musisi or Lukwago? -
>> Charles Onyango Obbo - monitor.co.ug
>>
>> http://www.monitor.co.ug/OpEd/OpEdColumnists/CharlesOnyangoObbo/Jennifer-Musisi-Lukwago-who-would-you-want-to-run-your-city/-/878504/2080528/-/m819cp/-/index.html
>>
>> If you owned a city, who would you hire to run it; Musisi or Lukwago? -
>> Charles Onyango Obbo - monitor.co.ug
>>
>> http://www.monitor.co.ug/OpEd/OpEdColumnists/CharlesOnyangoObbo/Jennifer-Musisi-Lukwago-who-would-you-want-to-run-your-city/-/878504/2080528/-/m819cp/-/index.html
>>
>>
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