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  • Edson Kirabila roots for return of Sunday Market on the streets of Kampala

    Edson Kirabila roots for return of Sunday Market on the streets of Kampala

    Mr. Edson Kirabila aka Eddy, the Civil Coordinator Operation Wealth Creation Greater Kampala office is continuing to show off his humanity, mobilisation skills and his support to the people as one of the top NRM government mobilisers.

    This week, he managed to meet Deputy ED Kampala Mr. Kigyenyi Benon at his office at City Hall and the two discussed a lot of issues regarding the return of Sunday market on the streets of Kampala.

    Kirabila is working hard to see that KCCA restores the Sunday market for the vendors.

    Edson Kirabila (L) with KCCA Deputy ED Mr. Benon. The two are due to meet again this week on the Sunday market matter

    Mr. Benon said the reasons why KCCA has delayed to give out Sunday Market is because of Sanitation mindset, mobile toilets contracts, Committee of Hawkers mindset and Numbers of vendors not confirmed. He assured Kirabila and the vendors that all is in the plans for the market to resume.

    Eddy who is the voice of the voiceless is due to meet with the Deputy ED KCCA later this week on the same matter.

  • Hajjat Hanifah Karadi applauded for serving the community

    Hajjat Hanifah Karadi applauded for serving the community

    The President of Structured Imams & Amirats Sheikh Saidi Kasawuli has applauded Hajjat Hanifah Karadi for her tireless efforts in serving community.

    This was yesterday after afternoon at Structured Imams and Amirats Assembly of Uganda witnessing Iddi packages offered by Uganda Revenue Authority (URA) to the Imams & Amirats, a gesture of giving back to community at Kawempe Tula.

    Hajjat Hanifah Karadi appreciated URA for such a good gesture to the Muslim community in this holy month of Ramadhan.

  • Frank Gashumba excited about Street Vendors eviction

    Frank Gashumba excited about Street Vendors eviction

    Social Entrepreneur, Motivational Speaker, Businessman and political analyst, Mr. Frank Gashumba, has welcomed Government’s decision of removing street vendors from Kampala.

    Reacting to the news after they were completely evicted, vocal Frank Gashumba said this has been long overdue. He said Kampala deserves a clean and well organized status as the capital city of Uganda, the Pearl of Africa.

    Frank Gashumba says he is happy about the removal of street vendors from Kampala

    “Happiness is killing me,” Frank Gashumba posted on his X after the street vendors were all cleared off Kampala Streets completely.

    The clearance is part of Kampala Capital City Authority (KCCA)’s move to reorganize Kampala Central Business and the surrounding areas.

    Next to be tackled are Boda Bodas which have become a menace to the City dwellers. Watch the space!!!

  • Court blocks further Construction of Judge Sebutinde’s Bugolobi apartment

    Court blocks further Construction of Judge Sebutinde’s Bugolobi apartment

    Residents and local leaders of Bugolobi’s Princess Anne Drive have secured a court order halting the construction of a multi-storied apartment block owned by Justice Julia Sebutinde, a Ugandan judge serving on the International Court of Justice (ICJ), after the High Court found that the dispute raises serious questions of legality under Uganda’s building laws.

    In a ruling delivered by Registrar Kintu Simon Zirintusa in Miscellaneous Application No. 1106 of 2025, arising from High Court Civil Suit No. 470 of 2025, the court issued a temporary injunction stopping all further construction at Plot 8, Princess Anne Drive, Bugolobi, pending determination of the main suit.

    The application was filed by Pius Bigirimana, a resident and neighboring property owner, who sued Kampala Capital City Authority (KCCA), John Ssebutinde, Justice Julia Sebutinde, and the site overseer Joseph Wamala, challenging the legality of the four-storey commercial apartment structure in what is largely a residential area.

    According to court records, the dispute dates back to 2022, when neighbors and the area LC1 leadership formally objected to the proposed development. The residents maintain that the KCCA Building Committee declined to approve the project, citing violations of the Building Control Act, 2013. Despite the objections, construction eventually commenced in August 2025.

    The court heard that on 20 November 2025, KCCA issued a formal directive ordering an immediate halt to construction, but the order was allegedly ignored, with works continuing day and night.

    In his ruling, Registrar Zirintusa found that the applicant had established a prima facie case, noting that whether the development required approval under the Building Control Act or the Physical Planning Act, and whether lawful approvals were obtained, are triable issues that must be determined in the main suit.

    The court further held that the applicant would suffer irreparable injury if construction continued, citing evidence of noise, dust, mental anguish, and invasion of privacy, including overlooking of private living spaces by construction workers. The Registrar ruled that such harm cannot be adequately compensated by damages.

    “The balance of convenience is in favour of the applicant,” the court held, ordering that the status quo be maintained and that no further construction continues.

    The temporary injunction will remain in force for six months from January 12, 2026, subject to extension if necessary. Costs will be determined after disposal of the main suit.

    Justice Sebutinde, who swore an affidavit in response on behalf of herself and her husband, argued that the structure was already roofed and near completion, but the court rejected this argument, stating that financial loss to the developers could be quantified, while harm to the residents could not.

    The matter has reignited public debate over accountability among senior judicial officers, with residents questioning what recourse remains for ordinary citizens when alleged violations involve those entrusted with interpreting and upholding the law.

    The substantive suit HCT-00CV-CS-0470-2025 remains pending before the High Court.

  • KCCA Clears MK International School, confirms Compliance with International Standards

    KCCA Clears MK International School, confirms Compliance with International Standards

    Kampala: The Kampala Capital City Authority (KCCA) has cleared MK International School in Busega of earlier reports questioning the school’s accommodations, confirming that the institution now meets the required standards.

    The clarification comes after former KCCA Director of Education, Juliet Nambi Namuddu, had raised concerns over the condition of the school’s facilities. Authorities have since verified that the school has upgraded classrooms, laboratories, and recreational areas to meet both local and international benchmarks.

    Charles Magnoti, the current Head of Education at KCCA, emphasized that MK International School has attained international standards. “The school has invested significantly in infrastructure and student facilities. Previous criticisms no longer reflect the current situation,” he stated.

  • Ham launches massive cleanup operations at Nakivubo Drainage Channel ahead of development

    Ham launches massive cleanup operations at Nakivubo Drainage Channel ahead of development

    Kampala: In a decisive move to kickstart long-awaited redevelopment works, city businessman Hamis Kiggundu, popularly known as Ham, has launched a massive cleanup operation along the downstream section of the Nakivubo drainage channel. The exercise marks a critical first step in preparing the site for actual construction to begin in the coming weeks.

    Heavy machinery, trucks, and manpower were deployed to remove waste, debris, and sediment buildup along key segments of the channel — an area notorious for flooding, pollution, and poor sanitation. The cleanup operation signals the beginning of what is expected to be a transformative project aimed at modernizing the Nakivubo Channel and its surroundings.

    Ham, who is also behind the redevelopment of Nakivubo War Memorial Stadium, has pledged to upgrade the entire drainage system while integrating commercial infrastructure to promote urban renewal, flood control, and better sanitation in downtown Kampala.

    “This is not just about cleaning; it’s about preparing the foundation for lasting development,” Ham said on site. “We are committed to working with relevant authorities to ensure that this project benefits the people and the city.”

    The upcoming construction phase will involve covering and modernizing the channel, creating service lanes, installing water filtration chambers, and possibly developing commercial spaces above the infrastructure — all designed to restore functionality and aesthetics to one of Kampala’s most vital drainage arteries.

    Photos and videos from today’s cleanup efforts show dredging works on the channel, heaps of collected waste, and crews working to clear the path for a new chapter in Kampala’s urban evolution.

  • The Kiteezi Dilemma: Audit Warnings, Institutional Reports & The Peril Of Prosecutorial Misuse

    The Kiteezi Dilemma: Audit Warnings, Institutional Reports & The Peril Of Prosecutorial Misuse

    The prosecution alleges that the Executive Director (ED) and Deputy Executive Director (DED) failed to act on critical warnings contained in internal audit and technical reports related to the Kiteezi Landfill (KLF).

    However, this line of argument fundamentally misrepresents the role of internal assurance functions, distorts administrative structures, and ignores both procedural norms and statutory boundaries.

    The claim seeks to transform non-binding internal observations into criminal indictments, ignoring the realities of how large public institutions operate; and worse, deliberately bypassing the officers who were both informed and empowered to act.

    🔹 Internal Audit Reports: Advisory in Nature, Not Executive Orders: By design, internal audit units serve an independent oversight function. Under the Public Finance Management Act, 2015 and KCCA’s own governance framework, the Director of Internal Audit (DIA) is mandated to: –

    Identify and assess internal risks,
    Issue reports to improve controls and accountability,
    Recommend, but not enforce, operational responses.
    These reports are routed to line directorates for action, in this case, the Directorate of Public Health and Environment (DPHE), which has legal and operational responsibility for waste management.

    There is no evidence that the weekly internal audit report cited by the prosecution (dated 15th–19th July 2024):

    Was escalated to the Executive or Deputy Executive Director,
    Was discussed at the Senior Management Team (SMT) level,
    Or resulted in any decision memo, minute, or directive at the executive level.
    Therefore, to suggest that failure to act on a report that was neither escalated nor actionable by the accused officers constitutes criminal negligence is procedurally baseless and doctrinally unsound.

    🔹 Technical Warnings Must Be Actioned by Those with Technical Mandate: Similar reliance is placed on reports by the Project Coordinator for Solid Waste Management, whose supervisory and budgetary line lies entirely within the DPHE. This position is not administratively or operationally accountable to the ED or DED for technical decisions.

    KCCA’s internal structures, codified in its Administrative Structures Manual and aligned with the KCCA Act, Sections 17–18, assign solid waste operations, including KLF site supervision, to the DPHE. This includes: –

    Receiving and reviewing site risk assessments,
    Issuing safety instructions,
    Preparing and submitting budget requests for risk mitigation.
    Notably, no evidence has been adduced that: –

    These reports were copied to or acknowledged by the DED,
    Any escalation memo was submitted to the executive level,
    Any risk flag from the DPHE was ignored or declined.
    Thus, the prosecution’s inference of executive negligence is built on presumptive awareness, not proven accountability; an argument that fails under established legal precedent.

    🔹 The DPHE’s Absence from Prosecution: A Disturbing Omission: The most damning evidence of prosecutorial selectivity is this: the very officer responsible for receiving, interpreting, and acting upon the internal audit and technical reports, the DPHE, has not been charged.

    Yet the prosecution seeks to indict the DED, whose only connection to these reports is by virtue of his title, not through action, omission, or statutory duty. This reveals a deeper agenda: – the pursuit of symbolic accountability over factual culpability, using executive visibility to compensate for institutional failure.

    🔹 Financial and Operational Constraints Precluded Immediate Action: Even if the reports had reached the ED or DED, which is not supported by the evidence, the ability to implement emergency measures would still have been constrained by:

    The absence of discretionary funds within their control,
    The lack of procurement-ready designs or approved emergency protocols,
    The requirement for DPHE validation, technical specification, and prioritization,
    The broader reality that the entire KLF decommissioning plan required UGX 235 billion, against an annual allocation of just UGX 3.1 billion.
    It is illogical, and legally indefensible, to assert that executive officers can be criminally liable for not actioning technical recommendations that were never procedurally escalated, and that required operational and fiscal authority they did not possess.

    🔹 No Admissible Evidence of Personal Knowledge or Neglect: There is no paper trail linking the DED to these specific reports or warnings. The prosecution has not produced: –

    SMT minutes discussing these reports,
    Internal memos addressed to or authored by the DED on the matter,
    Emails, endorsements, or tasking instructions assigning him specific responsibilities.
    In criminal law, especially in cases involving alleged negligence by omission, the burden is on the State to prove actual or constructive knowledge, legal authority to act, and culpable failure to do so. None of these elements are satisfied here.

    👉 This Is Not Accountability, It’s an Administrative Misfire: When non-binding audit observations and intra-departmental technical reports are used to criminalize executive officers with no documented knowledge, no statutory mandate, and no operational control, we cross the line from lawful prosecution into institutional persecution.

    This approach not only erodes the doctrine of personal culpability but also destabilizes the very principles of delegation and administrative responsibility that uphold public service governance.

    In truth, the ED and DED are being held liable for: –

    Reports they did not receive,
    Failures they did not cause,
    Decisions they were not empowered to make.
    This is not justice. It is a strategic deflection of institutional guilt, repackaged as accountability, and delivered through selective prosecution.

  • The KCCA Kiteezi Disaster, Selective Memory of Institutions & When Audit Warnings Become Weapons Against the Wrong People

    The KCCA Kiteezi Disaster, Selective Memory of Institutions & When Audit Warnings Become Weapons Against the Wrong People

    In the Kiteezi trial, the prosecution’s next line of argument leans heavily on a series of internal audit reports and technical warnings allegedly “ignored” by the Executive and Deputy Executive Directors. But beneath the legal posturing lies a deeper truth: these reports were advisory, not executive instructions; institutional, not personal; and routed, as per law and practice, through the very directorates that have now escaped scrutiny.

    What we are witnessing is not the unveiling of negligence, but the weaponization of internal audit systems to pursue officials who neither authored nor operationalized those reports, a distortion of process that, if accepted by the courts, would set a dangerous precedent for administrative governance in Uganda.

    🔹 Internal Audit Reports Are Not Executive Directives: Under the Public Finance Management Act (PFMA), 2015 and KCCA’s Financial and Audit Guidelines, the Director of Internal Audit (DIA) has a clear mandate: to issue risk advisories, not operational instructions. These reports: –

    Are routed through line directorates (e.g., the DPHE),
    Serve as early-warning mechanisms to improve institutional controls,
    Require interpretation, technical validation, and budgeting before implementation.
    No internal audit report carries an automatic obligation for direct action by the ED or DED unless it is escalated through formal decision-making channels, such as Senior Management Team (SMT) meetings or Council Executive Committee (CEC) resolutions. In this case, no such escalation has been proven.

    So how can the failure to act on a report that never reached the executive desk be classified as negligence?

    🔹 Technical Reports Belong to the Technicians: The prosecution also relies on reports from the Project Coordinator for Solid Waste Management, who, under KCCA’s organogram and administrative rules, reports to, and is supervised by, the Directorate of Public Health and Environment (DPHE). That directorate is: –

    Legally responsible for interpreting engineering risks,
    Operationally empowered to initiate remedial actions,
    Accountable for escalating matters only when they exceed their mandate or resources.
    There is no documentary trail, not a memo, email, SMT minute, or finance requisition, showing that the DED was served, copied, or instructed on the specific contents of these reports. Nor is there evidence that DPHE escalated concerns formally to the DED when internal audit warnings were raised.

    This is not a case of negligence. It is a case of bureaucratic short-circuiting, now being rebranded, wrongly, as criminal neglect.

    🔹 The Structural Irony: – The DPHE is Missing from the Dock: Once again, the absence of the DPHE, the official with direct operational responsibility over Kiteezi landfill, is deafening.

    The DPHE received internal audit reports.
    The DPHE supervised the Project Coordinator for Solid Waste.
    The DPHE held an annual operations budget of UGX 3.1B.
    The DPHE failed to respond to the ED’s own notated instructions following a funding request.
    Yet, inexplicably, the DPHE has not been charged, and instead, the DED, who had no direct line of authority over the site, is facing criminal liability.

    This is institutional scapegoating by omission, a silent admission that pursuing the structurally responsible officer might unravel the tidy narrative that someone “high up” must pay.

    🔹 Financial Reality vs. Forensic Fantasy: The reports in question highlighted issues already well known and acknowledged in: –

    The NEMA warnings of 2013, 2015, and 2020,
    The Auditor General’s 2023 report,
    The KCCA Strategic Plans and Ministerial Policy Statements for nearly a decade.
    The idea that a “new warning” issued in July 2024, after years of ignored systemic risk, would somehow trigger instant structural remediation, on an already collapsed fiscal pipeline, is not only naïve, it is disingenuous.

    Let’s call it what it is: – a legal smokescreen. The warnings were not new, the financial constraints were not hidden, and the authority to act did not lie with the DED. The failure, therefore, is systemic, not personal.

    🔹 There Is No Evidence of Personal Knowledge or Deliberate Inaction: What the law requires, and what the prosecution fails to show, is proof of actual knowledge and a clear legal duty to act. None exists here: –

    There are no acknowledgements or endorsements by the DED of the internal audit or technical reports.
    There is no evidence of a formal tasking to him on those reports.
    There are no SMT minutes, or directives linking the DED to any operational or financial refusal to act.
    In criminal law, especially under charges of negligence, speculative awareness is not enough. The reliance on vague phrasing like “were aware or ought to have been aware” is doctrinally inadequate and fails under established precedent.

    👉 Blame Without Evidence is Not Justice, It’s Ambition Masquerading as Accountability: What we are seeing is a familiar script in public administration: reports are filed, ignored at lower levels, but when disaster strikes, blame flows upward, not based on truth, but on optics. Internal audit and technical functions exist to protect institutions, not to become retroactive weapons used to sacrifice leaders at the altar of convenience.

    In this case, the DED has been ensnared not by evidence of wrongdoing, but by a prosecutorial culture desperate for a headline. That culture must be resisted.

  • Scapegoats of the State: How Uganda’s Justice System Is Criminalizing Reform to Shield Institutional Failure

    Scapegoats of the State: How Uganda’s Justice System Is Criminalizing Reform to Shield Institutional Failure

    A quiet institutional tragedy is playing out in Uganda; one not of collapsed infrastructure but of collapsed justice. In the name of accountability, the State is now prosecuting its own reformers, targeting senior executives at Kampala Capital City Authority (KCCA) for a national failure they neither authored nor controlled.

    This is not an honest reckoning with responsibility. It is a dangerous act of political theatre, one that imperils the very fabric of public administration.

    The Deputy Executive Director (DED) and Executive Director (ED) of KCCA now face criminal prosecution over the collapse of the Kiteezi Landfill (KLF), a facility whose license expired in 2013, whose technical failures were long documented and whose looming collapse was forecasted by over a decade of ignored policy warnings.

    The KLF disaster was not a failure of these executives, it was the institutional consequence of systemic inertia, fiscal neglect and regulatory tolerance by central government agencies and line ministries.

    Yet rather than confront the decades of budgetary starvation by the Ministry of Finance, the regulatory acquiescence of NEMA, the policy indifference of Cabinet or the paralysis of Parliament, the prosecutorial lens has zeroed in on two individuals whose visibility, not culpability, makes them convenient targets. This is not justice. This is optics. This is state-sanctioned scapegoating masquerading as accountability.

    At stake is not merely the professional fate of two individuals but the principle of public service itself. If public officers who escalate institutional risks, document operational challenges and pursue lawful solutions are prosecuted for outcomes outside their legal or operational remit, then what kind of service ethos are we nurturing? Are we asking public leaders to solve complex, underfunded and politically obstructed problems or are we simply asking them to serve as human shields when failure finally arrives?

    What you are reading here is not just a rebuttal of weak prosecution. It is a call to national reflection. It dissects the legal hollowness of the charges. It reveals how the roles of the ED and DED have been cynically distorted. It shows how leadership is being criminalized to hide deeper dysfunctions that no court will ever hear. And most importantly, it warns of the precedent this case will set: where public office becomes a crucifix and visibility death sentence.

    In a country where service delivery already operates on the margins of political will and fiscal constraint, the prosecution of the two ex-KCCA top executives sends a chilling message which is that do your job and risk your liberty. The true crisis is no longer in Kiteezi. It is in the soul of the State.

  • Photos: Pearl of Africa Tourism Expo ends on a high with Grand Festival!!

    Photos: Pearl of Africa Tourism Expo ends on a high with Grand Festival!!

    After three days filled with various conferences, exhibitions, and showcases, the 9th edition of the Pearl of Africa Tourism Expo concluded on Saturday with a vibrant music and cultural festival at the Lakeside Gardens, Speke Resort Munyonyo, marking a grand climax to the event that commenced on May 21, 2025, and wrapped up on May 24, 2025.

    The festival, organized by the Ministry of Wildlife and Antiquities, was headlined by the singing trio Jackie Chandiru, Lillian Mbabazi, and Cindy Sanyu from Blu *3, Renowned ‘Binyanyanya’ DJ Suuna Ben, Winnie Nwagi, comedy duo Madrat and Chiko, Aliddeki Brian, Abeeka Band, Crane Performers, DJ Tony, and Alpha Otim.

    Salvado Idringi, Adele Kiele, and Sheilla Gashumba were the hosts during the festival.
    The activities started with a boating regatta experience at Lake Victoria for some guests before DJ Tony kicked off the day with deejay mixes that took the audience to the first performance from the Crane Performers. Their showcase delved into the different Ugandan cultures exhibited in dance and music.

    Brian Aliddeki’s distinctive musical style, blending traditional Ugandan rhythms, melodies with contemporary sounds, especially on songs like Empaako Ya Niwooha, Akasilikiro, and Njagala Nkwagale, excited mostly the foreigners in attendance.

    At 6 pm, Abeeka Band took to the stage, and their 45-minute performances didn’t seem enough for the crowd, who sang along to every cover that the band did. Their set was so good that they returned to play for an extra five minutes as requested by Salvador and the audience.
    Madrat and Chiko came next, with skits centered on their travels in Uganda and abroad. They did so well that they left the audience roaring with laughter.

    IGC, a pioneering Ugandan fashion label co-founded by Katende Godfrey, was the official fashion curator for the expo, and during the closing ceremony, they showcased a unique perspective focusing on sustainability and heritage.
    This showcase presented original outfits that reimagine Lubugo (barkcloth), tracing its evolution from traditional fabric to modern fashion.

    Regarded as the pioneer of Acholitronix – a mixture of electronic music and Acholi traditional instruments, Otim Alpha tapped into a new audience, and his traditional Acholi ‘Larakaraka’ music excited some people in the crowd, especially those who are familiar with that language.

    Winnie Nwagi’s set brought people close to the stage, and she put up a splendid performance with songs like Gyangu, chekecha, matala, musawo, magic, okubye nyo, fire dancer, Amaaso with Vinka, Malaika, and Batuleke.

    “I have hosted events before, but last night I was in awe … during the day, we had a lot of classy people .. you know the wareva type, at night during Suuna set .. all I saw was kubakubakubakuba .. I got goosebumps .. never seen anything like that … this man is who he says he is .. I’ve allowed,” Salvado tweeted after Suuna Ben’s set.

    Suuna Ben’s session didn’t last more than 40 minutes, but it left everyone, including the bazungus, looking like they were possessed.
    Shortly after his performance, BLU *3 took it away, reminding the audience with their throwback songs like Nsanyuka Nawe, Hitaji, Mutima Gwange, Where You Are, and Sanyu Lyange, among others.

    The Pearl of Africa Tourism Expo (POATE) is an annual event showcasing Uganda’s unique attractions, promoting the country as a prime destination for tourism investment, partnerships, and cultural exploration.
    This concept brings together tourism operators, travel agents, hospitality stakeholders, and investors from around the world, creating a platform to promote Uganda’s brand as “The Pearl of Africa.

    The pearl of Africa tourism expo was sponsored by the Ministry of Tourism, Wildlife and Antiquities, Uganda Tourism Board, Uganda Wildlife Authority, Skills Excel, Uganda Tourism Association, Uganda Wildlife Research and Training Institute, Uganda Waragi, IGC (Official Fashion Curator), Talent Africa Group, Uganda Airlines, KCCA, PSFU, UN Global Pulse, Lemala Wild Waters, Speke Resort Convention Center and was organized by Talent Africa Group, Uganda’s leading 360 events Management Company.