The Lord Mayor Erias Lukwago has called for an emergency meeting on Thursday September 26th 2024 with stakeholders to forge a way forward following the sacking of the KCCA Executive Director Dorothy Kisaka, her deputy Eng. David Luyimbazi and the Director of Public Health, Dr. Daniel Okello.
The meeting will involve stakeholders in Kampala who include; the KCCA Council Speaker, Lord Councilors, Division Mayors with their Speakers, Kampala Members of Parliament and Resident City Commissioners (RCCs).
Among the issues to be discussed is the recruitment and payment of casual workers, and garbage management in the city among others.
Lukwago also disclosed that with effect from September 25th until October 2nd 2024 they have resumed the process of receiving bids from persons willing to sell land to KCCA where they will dump garbage collected from the city.
The resolution follows an engagement with the First Deputy Prime Minister Rebecca Kadaga and officials from the KCCA Technical Wing who presented a report indicating that shillings 250 million will be spent on purchasing one acre of land in Ddundu, Mukono district yet they own land in the same area, something which left some members uncomfortable.
He also warned all those who will submit their bids to know that they will be selling their land on credit as their payment will be effected in the next financial year 2025/26 following the revelation by the Rt. Hon. Kadaga that the Government had no money to purchase the said land now.
Lukwago was however shocked to receive the news of lack of funds because the information at hand was that the Government had committed shillings 16 billion from the Contingency Fund to purchase land for waste management.
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