{UAH} Let’s fix our city in 2015-kcca the den of thieves
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This money will be spent by Kampala Capital City Authority (KCCA) on, among other things, upgrading the road infrastructure in Kampala I think over a period of four years.
The critical point for the readers of this column to note is the fact that this is borrowed money that all of us will have to pay – with interest. I have previously written about the extent of our country's debt burden.
But just to remind you, a debt is considered unsustainable when it reaches the half mark of a country's total wealth, the Gross Domestic Product (GDP).
Ministry of Finance reports show that actually our debt burden has or is about to reach this mark. Our total GDP is $20 billion – the president insists it is $27 billion.
Our total debt, including the domestic, is now at over $8 billion. With various requests to borrow that await Parliament's approval, we are nearly there.
That is why Secretary to the Treasury Keith Muhakanizi recently said we were not in a position to borrow $8 billion for the construction of the inflated standard gauge railway.
Col Nuwe Amanya Mushega recently told me that the standard gauge railway had become the catchword for stealing now.
One of the conditions Parliament gave was that KCCA must first be reconstituted as an institution for it to handle such huge sums of money; and it was agreed by government led by Prime Minister Ruhakana Rugunda.
This agreement was captured in the Hansard of Parliament. Outside Parliament, this was understood only as the restoration of Lord Mayor Erias Lukwago. Yes, Lukwago is a big institution at KCCA but his restoration is just a precursor.
The Kampala District Land Board has expired except its chairman, Counsel Yusuf Nsibambi. I think his tenure comes to an end in August this year. Of course government propagandists and some elites portrayed Lukwago as an uncompromising character, the reason for the stand-off with Executive Director Jennifer Musisi who is a Museveni proxy at KCCA.
I hope you still recall the way Nsibambi, a very calm person, was treated by this Museveni proxy at KCCA. The issue at KCCA is not a clash of personalities – Lukwago versus Musisi – it is accountability or lack of it. State House and UPDF hide a lot of money under classified expenditure because they want to avoid a rigorous accountability process.
That is what the president, using the absence of Lukwago, has introduced at KCCA. Kampala is without a Public Accounts Committee (PAC) and before his illegal removal, Lukwago had nominated, I think five people. The minister for Kampala refused even to look at the list! This PAC is a creation of the KCCA Act. Add this to the Land Board which is also absent.
Frank Tumwebaze recently sidestepped the law and asked Makindye, Kawempe, Lubaga, Nakawa and Kampala Central divisions to nominate names. These names are supposed to be suggested by the lord mayor. Kampala is without a Metropolitan Physical Planning Authority.
Muruli Mukasa nominated persons including Ian Kyeyune but Museveni, who is obsessed with Musisi, refused to approve them. The authorityhas not sat since the illegal removal of Lukwago. You, therefore, can say there is no authority.
I think paving and repairing some stretches of roads shouldn't blind right-thinking members of society about the crisis in Kampala. And it is under this darkness that a lot of questionable deals are being concluded in the city, the latest being the purchase of Usafi market – five acres – at Shs 39 billion!
The minister responsible for Kampala, Tumwebaze, is now a subject of investigation in Parliament over his role in the $8 billion railway deal; he has also been named in the Katosi road saga in which we have as a country already lost Shs 25 billion – although he has strongly denied any involvement.
And it is him, Tumwebaze,who is superintending the affairs of the city. So, the Shs 500 billion that Parliament has allowed government to borrow will be supervised by him. I am now told KCCA councillors have been oiled to ensure Lukwago doesn't return. And when this KCCA under Musisi is finally investigated, the sky will come down.
Rwanda is developing their city as the main tourist attraction. Ours is being built without a plan. We paid Shs 9 billion to consultants who developed for us a physical plan that was thrown in the bin immediately it was released. What is the result of paying of Shs 80 billion in compensation to expand the Northern bypass and Shs 200 billion for the Entebbe Express Highway?
The president is blaming the land tenure system but where was he when people were building in road reserves? I am sure when this government is finally gone, we will have to pay through our noses to break and rebuild the city. Let us work hard to hasten their exit.
semugs@yahoo.com
The author is Kyadondo East MP.
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2- Yes when the final count-down of the amount of blood shed by museveni &co ,will people realise that the Ugandans killed directly and indirectly by this regime might be more than double the Rwandan genocide numbers.
3- Yes when museveni &co finally leaves and the final count is made of who owns what ; will people realise that actually this country has been in the hands of a small group ,which has sold every available resource to themselves.
4- Yes it is only after their departure and after many de-associate themselves with Uganda, will many bona fide Ugandans realise that all along they were dealing with con men whose interest was to enrich themselves not to work for the development of the nation ; and realise that they had sold the future of thier granchildren!
I have always heard the government borrowing money here and money their with the approval of Parliament.
How and when does Government pay back borrowed loans and what interest rates?
5-Yes all Ugandans should join the struggle to remove museveni &co from power as soon as possible.Each Ugandan should contribute whatever you can ; ie dont attend any NRA/NRM meetings whether by museveni or his associates.If by accident you attend,boo them down, disrupt.
stone any minister's or councilor's car,as a judge dismiss politicaly motivated cases,as a teacher concetise the children about the plight of the country, as a policeman, have mercy on fellow Ugandans dont brutalise them even when instructed ,most important,targe t the riches of museveni &co,take pigs to their functions,etc.
Just the way people rejected Museveni in 1980 when he was trying to be President. We can still reject him and his group.
We need mass defiance of the regime,then like South Africa we will defeat these imposters.
Now, this Frank Tumwebaze is just one of his praise singers also bent on milking this Country and messing it up.
These fellows have never had this Country at heart, their heart lies elsewhere, just wolves in a pack devouring this Country.
From reclaiming our environment like wetlands given to so called investors, to government land handed over to state cronies and fake investors and many other things like fighting corruption and cleaning up almost every sector in the Country.
The mess might take almost 50 years to normalise or more, fellow Ugandans, it will be a bumpy ride.
Remember in 1995/6 Uganda reached unsustainable debt levels and successfully applied to the World Bank or IMF to be christened a Highly Indebted Poor Country HIPC which was granted and we have gone down in the history books as the first African country ever to qualify.
I am informed as a condition the regime was advised to launch UPE. Who has not seen the great benefits of UPE. So we are headed for HIPC II and perhaps UTE Universal Tertiary Education. Halleluiah.
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