{UAH} Is it sabotage of City Planning Efforts?! Powerful Investor is the State and Law!
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There is something peculiar in the way wetlands including Lweza were allocated to so called investors. Even a mildly educated civil servant and politicians who are largely behind this sort of things will know that water in natural wetlands can't be displaced whatever amount of efforts - and this is specifically lethal in Kampala hilly and valley topology not least Lake Victoria wetland.
Dr Tom Okurut, the executive director of the National Environment Management Authority (Nema), said he was not aware of any activity going on at the disputed wetland. "Authorisation for development and or construction is done by city authorities. As Nema, we have not approved or issued a certificate (Environment Impact Assessment) regarding that area," Dr Okurut said in a telephone interview
"We asked them to list down all their environmental concerns and they were addressed. I do not think they have any environmental grounds to complain now. The argument should be about social inconvenience and environmental nuisance which should go to the planning authority not Nema," she said on phone yesterday.
http://www.monitor.co.ug/artsculture/Reviews/Authorities-look-on-as-Kinawataka--disappears-/-/691232/2513334/-/m6g3k8/-/index.html
That is why we have stopped the reclamation severally before," he says, before showing and the reported developer identified as Meera Investments.
http://www.monitor.co.ug/News/National/Flooding-feared-as-investors-reclaim-Kinawataka-wetland/-/688334/2209114/-/pbn1pjz/-/index.html
Despite several media reports highlighting the abuse going on at the Katoogo Wetland in Kinawataka, a suburb of the city, authorities have chosen to keep mute and look on as the wetland degradation goes on.
http://www.monitor.co.ug/OpEd/Editorial/Stop-rape-of-this-wetland/-/689360/2269400/-/cpy9xbz/-/index.html
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