{UAH} WHAT EXACTLY IS URBAN PLANNING? And just asking !!!!!!!

Everything goes in Uganda! It will be so costly rectfy the problems.

Interesting article; how do you force water up the many hills of Kabale, Mbarara, Kampala or Mpigi? Such questions don't sound any bells to politicians!

Everything goes!

 

In 2011 I created a research department somewhere and I needed a person to run it. The person would have world acclaim as we needed to seek funds here and there to conduct our research.

 

I had a Uganda friend who was residing and working in Norway. He volunteered to comeback to Uganda and do the needful, but he did not have a house- so unknowingly he bought a plot of land 50 * 100 m in one of the so called estates around Kampala. Hurriedly he went ahead step-up a structure.

 

One afternoon he came to my office - he wanted help to talk to KCCA to pull sewer and water lines to his unfinished structure.

I told him that was impossible, to his bewilderment.

The sewage system in Kampala covers only Kololo, Nakasero, Kamwokya some parts Nsambya - less than 18% of Kampala 50 years after the African became independent!

I also informed him, he will not be able to get water in that place. National Water and Sewerage Corporation had not extended their infrastructure to that place.

 

He asked me what the alternatives were,

I told him for sewerage he had to dig/ construct a septic tank for himself. 

He asked where  ?

I look at the plot and the structure drawing and there was space in the would be courtyard.

I replied in front of his house since he had no space left on his plot

He is a water biologist - instantly he found my suggestion repulsive and he squarely rejected it.

The solution was to dig underground pipes and divert all filth from his house to a lagoon . Creating a lagoon would cost him money and buying land and by that very act he had no space to pass the pipes since all around him where equally small plots scattered everywhere with no proper design for such infrastructure.

In 2013 he managed to finish the structure - sold it off. For these encumbrances and others he left the country for greener pastures!

 

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A land owner has a problem and he sought my advise. He had settled about 400 families on a piece of land around Kampala – it is hilly and the roads are bad.

I advised him to create a drainage system which will eventually eat up into the already sold plots. Another problem was that each family were having two vehicles and basically they had had to park on the road since the plots were too small. Prior to demarcating the land such issues were not considered,

Down the road he says people have started moving out of the so called estate and he is seeking a remedy to the problem – which in my opnion would be to break down expensive houses otherwise as people discove the problem the land and property looses value!

Bwanika

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Bwanika Nakyesawa Luwero

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