Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Kampala Division councilors have halted the budgeting process for the FY 2025/2026 demanding full devolution of power to their respective city divisions. The unanimous decision was made at a stakeholders’ meeting attended by the Kampala Capital City Authority-KCCA executive committee, councilors, division mayors, and the …
Read More »
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The High Court in Kampala has quashed a resolution made by Kampala Capital City Authority (KCCA) to cancel the freehold interest of The Registered Trustees of Shree Sanatan Dharma Mandal in a property housing Bat Valley Primary School. The decision issued on Friday by the …
Read More »
Mukono, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Mukono Municipal Council has granted permission to the Kampala City Council Authority to resume dumping waste at the Katikolo landfill for a period of two weeks. This is after KCCA accepted to fund the council’s supplementary budget of 666 million Shillings. The Secretary for Finance Romeo …
Read More »
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Garbage trucks, operated by the Kampala Capital City Authority (KCCA), have been stranded at division headquarters for five days after being turned away from the dumping sites in Mukono and Nansana. Despite the government’s announcement in August that Katikolo in Mukono District and Menvu Busukuma in …
Read More »
Why the arrest and detention of the leaders of our city is a cynical political gimmick THE LAST WORD | Andrew M. Mwenda | The arrest and detention of the top executives of KCCA for the disaster that happened at Kitezi landfill is sad. I know for a fact that President Yoweri Museveni …
Read More »
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Kampala Capital City Authority (KCCA), the Ministry of Health, and Wondfo Biotech Company have partnered to promote HIV self-testing among men in Kampala, targeting Boda Boda riders. Jackson Kadumye, the Senior Communications Officer from the Ministry of Health, told journalists in Kisenyi on Friday …
Read More »
The sight of their big-size job-seeking envelopes shouldn’t be a laughing matter in the corridors of City Hall COMMENT | JOSEPH WERE | The process of hiring replacements for the dismissed KCCA officials appears to be on and lists purporting to be of aspirants who have applied to fill the vacancies …
Read More »
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Kampala Capital City Authority has revealed an increase in the cases of Mpox disease in the city with the Kawempe division recording the highest numbers of 56 cases. Overall, the most affected job category are the sex workers and boda boda riders. Richard Walyomu, …
Read More »
It’s the KCCA structure, stupid! Why management can’t change city without change in ‘political authority’ COVER STORY | IAN KATUSIIME | Former Vision Group CEO Robert Kabushenga has led the pack of corporate gurus gunning for the position of Kampala Capital City Authority (KCCA) executive director. Other known applicants are …
Read More »
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Landlords whose houses were destroyed by the Kiteezi landfill want compensation expedited. Two weeks ago, State Minister for Disaster Preparedness, Relief, and Refugees Lilian Aber, assured the landlords whose properties were damaged, as well as those in the buffer zone that the government will compensate …
Read More »
The Independent Uganda: You get the Truth we Pay the Price
