MPs order KCCA to review Nakivubo plans
A roof-top view of Nakivubo Stadium from one of the buildings erected outside its fence. file PHOTO
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This follows discoveries that the developers are not going by the approved plans.
KAMPALA- MPs on the parliamentary committee that is investigating the sale of public land in Kampala, on Wednesday tasked Kampala Capital City Authority officials to explain why they approved building plans they said are suffocating the historical Nakivubo stadium.
Mr Robert Migadde Ndugwa, the Buvuma Island legislator and committee head, asked KCCA acting director, Physical Planning, Mr Moses Atwine Kanuniira, to provide information why the stadium’s parking yard is occupied by illegal kiosks despite the authority banning such structures in the city.
Mr Atwine in response, however, told MPs that KCCA had issued evavcuation notices to the kiosk owners, but the vendors defied vacating the premises.
The MPs who were touring the stadium queried whether the kiosks tenants were not remitting taxes to KCCA and whether the proprietors were above the law not to be forcefully evicted.
“The impression we have got here is that most of the occupants on Nakivubo land are setting up illegal business contrary to what KCCA endorsed,” said Mr Mathias Mpuuga, the Masaka Municipality MP.
The MPs also learnt that Mr Hamis Kiggundu, the proprietor of Ham Enterprise Ltd, proposed to erect a perimeter wall at the stadium, but instead constructed lock-up shops, which are housed on the Ham Shopping Ground.
Mr Migadde directed KCCA to review all the plans that were approved to all the developers on the land.
“If KCCA approved building for the construction of a perimeter wall, why would the developer default the plans and erect shops in the face of redevelopment,” questioned Mr Migadde.
KCCA spokesperson Peter Kaujju said the authority had already embarked on the process to ensure all public land, which is under their mandate, is protected.
“The MPs are raising pertinent issues. These issues are to our rescue. KCCA found everything already in a mess. We are trying to correct our predecessors’ mistakes,” he said.
