More children have flooded city streets in the last two months despite efforts by authorities to evict and rehabilitate them, sparking mixed reactions about their safety. The children, who have made begging their mainstay, commute from their various places of abode in city slums every morning to storm the streets in search of a fortune.…
Kampala Resident City Commissioners have vowed to continue with the ongoing boda-boda registration despite a petition by the Lord Mayor Erias Lukwago challenging the directive by the Minister for KCCA, prohibiting all unregistered boda bodas from operating in the Kampala Metropolitan Area. Anderson Burora, the Resident City Commissioner for Rubaga Division says that the campaign…
The committee for remuneration of Kampala city councilors took centre stage when officials from Kampala Capital City Authority (KCCA) appeared before the Committee on Presidential Affairs on Wednesday, 13 March 2022. Led by the State Minister for Kampala and Metropolitan Affairs, Hon. Kabuye Kyofatogabye, the KCCA officials were defending their ministerial policy statement for financial…
The Kampala Resident City Commissioner, Hud Hussein has distanced himself from “smart city”, one of the youth vigilante groups purportedly enforcing law and order in the city. The youths who often wear black T-Shirts and light green reflector jackets with the inscription “smart city”, have in the previous days been seen enforcing law and order…
All vendors and street hawkers will not be allowed in Kampala City starting next year (2022), Government has announced. While addressing journalists on Thursday ahead of the busy festive period, Kampala Resident City Commissioner (RCC), Hudu Hussein revealed that hawkers and vendors must find markets where to operate from as they will not be allowed…
Kampala Capital City Authority (KCCA), Non-Government Organizations and Uganda Police have rescued at least 170 street kids from the slums of Kampala and taken them for quarantine and rehabilitation. According to Ms Eunice Tumwebaze, the Manager for Children and Youths at KCCA, children have been settled at Nakivubo Blue Primary School where they are being…
The Minister for Kampala and Metropolitan Affairs, Betty Amongi has approved additional allowances for the newly created authority and division executive members under the 2020 Kampala Capital City Authority-KCCA Amendment Act. The allowances communicated in a December 10th letter by the minister to the executive director and the deputy executive director of the authority are…
A man who purports to be an operative of Kampala Capital City Authority (KCCA) but is going around town extorting money from bar owners has finally been exposed. Peter Ssetenda, who claims to be working in the KCCA enforcement department, is allegedly accused of conniving with some rogue police officers to conduct illegal operations during…
Kampala: If there is any government Authority that frustrating President Yoweri Museveni’s fight against corruption, then it is the City Hall based Kampala Capital City Authority (KCCA), because investigators indicate that officials there are involved in gross abuse of government funds and tax payers’ money. This is because officials at KCCA not only embezzled funds…
Officers of the Kampala Capital City Authority (KCCA) and lawyers of city law firm Ssendege & Co. Advocates have been pinned in a plot to rake over Shs14Bn from the Authority’s coffer under the guise of legal costs and compensations. This rip-off is entailed in a report released on July 01st, 2020 by the Kampala…
