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Bwanika, Well, with So much has gone unattended to, so much
damage has been done both to the infrastructure, records and fiber of the
people themselves in the KCC institution that talking about KCC inability seems
to be wastage of time. First of all the institution is so politicized
that it makes it very inactive when it comes to implementation of what they
(KCC) see as development programmes. You will recall several instances where
KCC has made advertisements about their intended programmes, but only to be
told to reverse them. It is even hard for us onlookers to tell who actually is
more of a saviour – KCC or State House! A case in point is one of the Naguru and
Nakawa estates that KCC was talking of giving them to private real estate
developers to be developed into viable business/accommodation centers. The KCC
argument was that the estates have been occupied by people who have never paid
rent and no improvement or management of the houses has been done – true for
government properties! We are made
to understand that even serious developers had been identified and compensation
process for the sitting tenants made. However, as this was going on, little did
the public know that the whole exercise had turned political. The Assistant
RDCs of in the area got concerned that these poor people were being thrown on
the streets by the unconcerned and inhumane KCC. (By the way the tenants had petitioned to
the RDCs and area MP and threatened not to vote come next elections!) Now we hear the redevelopment has been
stopped so Nakawa and Naguru will continue to enjoy its filth and dilapidation! So you can see that KCC has no clout of
any sort apart from chasing hawkers on the roads. Even this, they can only do
it up to an extent where it is not seen as threatening some people’s
votes in the city, otherwise Bwana Sebaana will be told to keep his hatchet boys
under lock. On the extent of how much KCC can do
visa-vis the expectations, I submit that Realistically, there is no way you expect
that with the current budget, personnel skills, authority limitations,
political interference and level of corruption, that KCC will be able to
deliver the way we all expect it to do. You will find that KCC’s so called
technocrats are the same old fashioned civil servants who have been there for
donkey years. These guys have no new ideas and no innovations. “They live
and let live”. The new entrants in KCC are busy writing proposals to
donors, embassies and NGOs for funding of projects. Everyone there is
frantically looking to attaching oneself or designs oneself a funded project. It
does not matter its impact and the deliverables, so long as it is a “good
sellable” project. This is why you find that KCC offices have been turned
into an NGO plaza of some sort. To cut the long story short, the
government should admit that running Kampala City is beyond KCC’s ability
anymore and Ministry of Finance should come up to incorporate KCC affairs in
the national budget if we are to have a city worth a name. This means that management of KCC should
cease to be politicized like it is now. The Chief Executive of KCC should be
appointed purely on merit and not elected on basis of political leaning. Many times I get annoyed with the Mayor
for all the mess and filth in Edward -----Original Message----- Kampala needs a 'Napoleon' |
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- Edward Baliddawa
