{UAH} Hon Tumwebaze/Kyambadde; Kampala City - Litmus for Government PA Efficiency & Management

Kampala City - Litmus for Government PA Efficiency & Management

 

 

KCCA is not an entire government system – KCCA is only responsible for a small portion of state activities. There is an immediate need to have the same Kampala City arrangement in the North, South, West and East of Uganda to ease KCCA planning operations.

 

Hoima is developing in relation to what?

 

Line ministries likewise should get involved in City Planning and Physical planning as a vital economic lifeline.

 

-          Physical planning is directed towards jobs and population growth across cities, municipalities and towns and provides a regional basis for collaboration (confluences) between all levels of government and economic sectors.

-          Sub regions, state and local governments have to collectively plan for; jobs, housing and investment – no serious inventor can invest in Uganda drunken towns not strategically placed to tap into markets and population densities.

 

Sir Samuel Baker outside Gulu, St. Charles Lwanga Koboko S.S., Ndejje Secondary, Nabisunsa S.S., Mengo S.S , Namilyango S.S, Lubiri S.S are some of the schools that had exactly the same building and education structures. The students therefore, no matter where they were located in Uganda, in these schools had exactly the same possibilities – it is Physical Planning!

  

How could the above be done?

 

1. Ministries of Lands and Housing working together with the Land Commission and Libyan National Housing Construction Corporation (NHCC) and Ministry of Transport and Works would be working with KCCA to allocate land for new housing estates, industrial plots, parks etc, were Libyan owned NHCC would be designing and setting up new mixed human settlements to mitigate an ugly rich mans slum expansion in and around Kampala and in a radius of 250 km from Kampala. Government could be considering Mityana, Lugazi and Jinja as alternative human settlements – a very short distance to Kampala City with inter-regional railway transport system!
2. National Water and Sewerage Corporation (NWSC) would be looking for alternative water sources NOT from Lake Victoria but inland aquifers to stop over utilising Lake Victoria water, which East Africans appear to take for granted! Storm and Sewer water could be directed to Bombo or Wakiso not Bugolobi wetlands. Better still let NWSC link up with Makerere or Kyambogo and design a 90% water recycling system for urban centres.
3. Uganda Railways Corporation (URC) now almost run by the South African and Egyptian owned RVR would be working with the Ministry of Transport to organise Kampala Transport Master Plan in relation to National Transport Infrastructure with KCCA planners. Planning Kampala Transport Master plan would include among others Entebbe Airport, Mpigi if there are cold storage facilities, cover districts production centres in the Eastern Uganda, and Mukono, Jinja, Mityana, Luwero and Wakiso. KCCA jurisdiction covers only Kampala Metro! In fact, the Standard Gauge Railway line would start in Kampala to cover Mukono, Mityana, Lugazi, Bujjuko, Kyengera and Jinja. Since the industrial areas are now in Namanve /Mbalala - a line could be built to extend services to Luwero "depot", as a gateway to South Sudan and Mpigi as a get way to Rwanda and Congo and the International Community.
4. Where is Ministry of Energy? With the above it implies all districts surrounding Kampala, up to Gulu would be able to generate their own electricity – it is dim-witted silly to depend on one system in an earthquake prune region, the Ministry of Energy would be setting up alternative micro-power dams to subsist: Entebbe, Wakiso, Mpigi, Luwero. This will go as far as Mbarara, Gulu, Mbale and Jinja – Arua and Kabale have another grid system.
5. Kampala City should be planned in relation with other municipal centres – what is Uganda's second city if we have it at all? I have once written that Kampala could be hit with massive landslides due to topographical nature, compromised with pit latrines, rampant road/housing construction, and septic tanks on hills. There is a high probability that Kampala suffers from massive disease outbreak due to congestion – take owino market for example.
6. Kampala City needs regular mapping and surveying. KCCA can't do it alone it should be Ministry of Lands, Housing and Urban Development. Department for Surveying and Mapping could come in (if they can!) and do it for both geological and geo-technical purposes. Heavy torrential rains, hill excavation, massive building construction all are changing the terrain.  This will also include Ministry of Environment, National Forest Authority and National Environment Authority, which have to start resettling people from wetlands, forests etc.
7. The Ministry of Public service should also be present in the scheme of things and start relocating some state agencies from Entebbe and Kampala. Ministry of Tourism, Ministry of Energy should be headquartered where they have their work in national parks and Jinja respectively.
8. There is real destitution, misery and hopelessness in the country: Ministry of Gender would be working closely not only with KCCA but Jinja, Mukono, Luwero, Wakiso to solve issues of sick, mad and people with no hope on the streets in these Municipal and Town councils. This too implies Ministry of Health would be mapping and ring fencing the problems associated with poverty in the country. If KCCA were to tackle the problem in the City it will be overwhelmed by numbers pouring in from upcountry particularly from war regions of; Teso, Acoli and Luwero. These issues are now rampant in areas like Mbarara!

 

There is need for freight terminals, passenger stations, inland ports, maritime ports, airports and urban nodes in the North, Western and Eastern Uganda. These must be of strategic importance to human development.

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Bwanika Nakyesawa Luwero

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