UK firm wins bid for Nakawa estate

Dec 20, 2006

A British firm, Comer Homes Group-OPEC Prime Properties, has won the tender to redevelop Naguru and Nakawa Housing Estates into a modern satellite town.

By Joyce Namutebi

A British firm, Comer Homes Group-OPEC Prime Properties, has won the tender to redevelop Naguru and Nakawa Housing Estates into a modern satellite town.

Local government ministry Permanent secretary Vincent Ssekkono yesterday disclosed that the Government would provide 160 acres of prime land valued at over US$20m (sh34.8b) free to the developer.

The developer will in turn construct 1,700 high-rise flats for the sitting tenants and also put up other developments.

In a statement yesterday, Ssekkono explained that the land was given free as a contribution to the project and an incentive to the developer.

This is the biggest housing construction project ever to be undertaken by the Government under a public-private partnership arrangement.

Ssekkono said the flats would occupy an area of about 13.2 hectares in designated locations on both of the estates.

Other developments like bungalows, residential houses and commercial buildings will be constructed on the rest of the land and sold to the public.

Ssekkono said in order to establish the bonafide tenants who will be eligible to get units in the flats through mortgage arrangement, the government in collaboration with the project consultants and the Uganda Bureau of Statistics in October registered the tenants in the two estates.

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