Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Kampala City Lord Mayor Erias Lukwago has asked government to decentralize COVID-19 vaccination and testing to allow easy access to the services especially during the days of nationwide lockdown instituted by President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni. Lukwago speaking at a press briefing at City Hall asked …
Read More »KCCA dispatches 18 ambulances for emergency health response
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Kampala Capital City Authority-KCCA has sent out 18 ambulances to offer emergency health response to the residents across the greater Kampala area. The ambulances will offer health evacuation to both suspects and patients of COVID-19 and any other health condition. This comes in the aftermath …
Read More »KCCA probes reports of missing Covid-19 vaccines
KCCA has failed to account for 21,000 Covid-19 doses it received Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Kampala Capital City Authority-KCCA has launched investigations into allegations that COVID-19 vaccines entrusted to its health centres went missing under mysterious circumstances. Uganda received 964,000 vaccine doses which were sent to different local governments …
Read More »KCCA razes stalls in Kikuubo in a bid to manage crowds
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | More than 100 vendors in Kikuubo business center in Kampala central business district are stuck following the eviction of their stalls by Kampala Capital City Authority-KCCA so as to reduce crowding. KCCA has evicted all metallic and wooden stalls that had been erected on the …
Read More »Health Ministry directs KCCA to account for 21,000 Covid-19 vaccine doses
Health ministry wants KCCA to account for 21,000 doses whose usage has not yet been accounted for Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The health ministry has directed Kampala Capital City Authority -KCCA to account for all the vaccines that it received for the COVID-19 vaccination exercise. Uganda received 964,000 vaccine doses …
Read More »New KCCA speaker dismayed by authority’s low budget allocation
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The newly elected Speaker of Kampala Capital City Authority-KCCA, Zahara Luyirika has expressed dismay over the low budget allocations to the authority during the budgeting process. Speaking at City Hall after taking oath as KCCA speaker, Luyirika said it’s a disgrace that while the city …
Read More »NUP’s Zahara Luyirika elected KCCA Speaker
✳ Zahara Luyirika – 43 ✳ Namusisi Shamim – 8 ✳ Invalid votes – 1 Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Zahara Luyirika, the National Unity Platform Party-NUP candidate has been elected Speaker of Kampala Capital City Authority-KCCA. Buganda Road Chief Magistrate Ayo Miriam Okello declared Luyirika, the Woman Councillor …
Read More »NUP’s Luyirika and NRM’s Namusisi nominated for Speaker of KCCA
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Councillors Zahara Luyirika from the National Unity Platform Party-NUP and Shamim Awal Namusisi from the National Resistance Movement-NRM have been nominated for the position of speaker of Kampala Capital City Authority-KCCA. The position of Speaker and Deputy Speaker was introduced during the Amendment of the …
Read More »KCCA to review Old Taxi Park stages ahead of reopening
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Kampala Capital City Authority- KCCA is reviewing stages for taxis to operate in the newly renovated Old Taxi Park. Last week, KCCA released a route chart to be followed by taxi operators who were scheduled to return to the Old Taxi Park on on …
Read More »NUP to conduct primaries for KCCA speakership seat
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The National Unity Platform-NUP will next week conduct primaries for the position of Speaker of Kampala Capital City Authority-KCCA. The Speaker, a position introduced in the KCCA amendment of 2019 is elected by the councillors to preside over council sittings, pass authority budgets and conduct an …
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