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THIS WEEK: KCCA Bill causes more turmoil The Minister for Kampala Beti Kamya is locked in a war of words with Lord Mayor Erias Lukwago and city councilors as the fallout over the KCCA Amendment Bill rages on. Kamya snubbed a meeting convened by Lukwago where Kamya was supposed to …

THIS WEEK: The ongoing feud between Kampala Capital City Authority (KCCA) Executive Director and Minister for Kampala Beti Kamya is paralyzing work at City Hall, the headquarters of the city authority. It all started when Musisi distanced herself from the KCCA Bill, largely engineered by Kamya. While appearing on a radio …

VIDEO: Withdraw the KCCA bill, Kampala MPs tell minister Kamya Legislators from Kampala have asked the Minister for Kampala Betty Namisango Kamya to unconditionally withdraw the KCCA Amendment Bill 2015 that was recently re-tabled before Parliament by her deputy Benny Namugwanya. The members argue that if passed in its current …

Museveni’s latest plan to kick Lukwago out of Kampala? Erias Lukwago, 47, the Kampala Capital City Authority (KCCA) Lord Mayor, is in fighting mode again.  This time, it is not the Executive Director, Jennifer Musisi or the Minister for Kampala, Betty Kamya, he is taking on but a law. According …

Can Hamis Kiggundu deliver on his promise? Ham Shopping Grounds is a tiny concrete cream building, often called a mall, about half the size of standard football pitch with four floors and flat concrete roof-top right at the edge of Uganda’s oldest sports arena; the Nakivubo Memorial Stadium. The stadium …

Parliament on Mar.01 engaged in a heated debate regarding eviction of vendors from Park yard market in down town Kampala on orders of Kampala Minister Beti Namisango Kamya.Following a proposal by Kampala legislator Mohammed Nsereko, Speaker Rebecca Kadaga asked the Minister to present to parliament a list of vendors who …

Traders at Park yard market in down town Kampala were on Feb.27 left stranded as police sealed off their work station in the wee hours of the morning. This came after the police engaged in running battles with traders a week before as they demonstrated against their eviction, something that …

VIDEO: Looking at the recent eviction of vendors at Kampala’s Park Yard, looks like the war on the issue is not over. Speaker of parliament Rebecca Kadaga directs Kampala minister Betty Olive Namisango Kamya to produce a full list of park yard vendors who were evicted and the stalls where they were …

Betty  Namisango Kamya has been dragged to the Commercial Court by a supplier of campaign posters used in the 2011 General Elections, over a sh54.2 million debt. Bakka Abubakari trading as Najab Printers and Stationers claims that on the November 21, 2010 Kamya wrote to him asking him to make posters …

Kampala Lord Mayor Erias Lukwago and KCCA councilors have Monday afternoon been blocked from accessing the cordoned-off Park Yard Market, with a group of stick wielding men forcefully ordering them off the premise. Lukwago attempted to access the area after KCCA Council resolved to undertake a fact finding mission to …