Kabale and Rubanda leaders are questioning the method used in the extension of boundaries. This is after it emerged that Kitumba, Kamuganguzi sub-counties and Katuna town councils in Ndorwa West County, Kabale district, Bubaare and Nyamweru sub-counties in Rubanda East County, Rubanda district will be annexed to Kabale municipality.
The municipality has now resumed extending the street lights up to Hakempu un Mwanjari along Kabale-Katuna road and up to Butobere Junction along Kabale-Mbarara Highway.
Patrick Besigye Keihwa, the Kabale District LC 5 Chairperson, says leaders from the district and municipality have selected him to champion the move of expanding Kabale municipality.
Through his lawyers, Twikirize and company advocates, Kabagambe who has sued the Municipality together with Kabale District Land Board and Commissioner Land Registration argues that the manner under which Kabale Municipality acquired a freehold certificate of Kabale Central Market was fraudulent.
Joseph Monday, the Kabale Municipality Town Clerk says that the municipal council has already received the intention to sue. Monday also says that they have already instructed their lawyers to file in defense to Mujunis lawyers explaining why the contract could not continue.
A road gang member deployed to work in Northern division told URN on condition of anonymity because of fearing to lose her job says she demands Shillings 600,000.
The traders accused the authorities for carrying out the registration exercise without involving the leadership of the market and failing to share with them the Memorandum of Understanding and market designs for scrutiny.
Emmanuel Sentaro Byamugisha, the Kabale Municipal Mayor, says they terminated Mujunis contract following several complaints implicating him for overcharging motorists.
The Mayor and other municipal leaders said that the roads were not paved in line with the terms of the contract and that the contractor had not laid slab covers on top of the drainage system.
According to the Northern Division LC III Chairman, Isaac Musinguzi Rushoga, Niwagaba who is also the Northern Division Finance Committee Chairperson was found destroying drums into sizeable pieces and removing marks so that he can easily sell them in form of scraps.
Last month, Danson Mujuni was contracted to collect the fees at 300 shillings per hour. All vehicles found parked wrongly are fined 50,000 shillings. However, vehicle owners claim that most of the areas, where the contractor collects parking fees are in front of business premises and yet the landlords pay ground rent.
Kabale municipal authorities imposed a ban on sand excavation and brick-making in all swampy areas and road reserves, in March, as a strategy for conserving the environment and protecting roads against destruction.
Grace Musinguzi, the representative of Rutooma ward, says the decision of the two leaders was uncalled for, saying they should have sought council approval.
Kenneth Mwesigye, a Boda boda rider at Katuna stage in Kabale Central division, says the broken sewer line discharges waste, which finds itself in peoples residencies and businesses
In February, Kabale Municipal Council authorities started exhuming bodies from the cemetery and reburied them in a mass grave. The land was levelled and turned into a parking yard for Buses and trucks.
Byaruhanga suspects that Tusiime was first raped before she was killed since they found her body naked. Tusiimes body was taken to Kabale Regional Referral hospital mortuary for postmortem
ohn Kalisa, the Chairman Kabale Municipal Finance, Planning and Investment Sectoral Committee, says there is no Kigezi Transports Limited can continuing running the park yet it has failed to remit revenue to the municipality.
Ely Maate, the Kigezi Region Police Spokesperson says they had to rescue the suspects because residents have no right to take the law into their hands.
