According to Robert Mubiru, the Programs Execution Manager at Umeme Limited, the refurbishment of the lines will start next month, to be completed by November and they are going to renew most of the lines which have become weak leading to continuous power outages.
Some Members of Parliament, civil society, and development experts doubt that the Parish development model will be different from similar interventions like Entandikwa, and NAADS.
Susan Nabirye, one of the residents says that in 2018, district officials ordered to vacate the wetland and provide space for the surveyors to map out one of the government’s protected areas, which they adhered to.
Jacob Ssemakula, one of the affected vendors told our reporter that the market was started by reformed youth in Kawempe division. He said that the government would have relocated them to another area instead of evicting them.
Last month, KCCA evicted Boda Bodas off the street in an effort to decongest the corridor and enforce its proper usage. More than 50 motorcycles were impounded.
Molly Tandeka, the representative of Sembabule Archdeaconry to the synod demanded that the diocese adopts coffee farming as its niche through, which it can foster improved livelihoods of its priests and lay-readers, wherever they are deployed on their clerical duties.
The roads to be graded from the current dilapidated state to first class murrum include14.85km Kigaya-Kitindura-Kikuube,7.30 Kyangwali-Tontema-Mahamba, 5.20km Bukinda-Nguse, 12.40km Kabanyansi-Musaijamukuru,13.95 km Kinogozi-Kihabwemi-Kigaya,16km Kiziranfumbi-Kichakanya-Ruhunga.
During the launch of the plan on Wednesday, Umeme said the development is aimed at ensuring timely power supply within the sub region, so as to improve productivity in both the manufacturing and services sectors.
