What is NEMA doing?

Mar 13, 2008

EDITOR—Recently, I was stuck in a traffic jam on Mulwana road (formerly Kibira) and I observed two environment-related hazards. The Uganda Baati factory was emitting thick smoke through one of its chimneys into the air.

EDITOR—Recently, I was stuck in a traffic jam on Mulwana road (formerly Kibira) and I observed two environment-related hazards. The Uganda Baati factory was emitting thick smoke through one of its chimneys into the air.

This smoke covered the Bugolobi area in a thick cloud, and some of it which came down had a chocking effect. Imagine this goes on everyday in the middle of the city! Secondly, the Nakivubo wetland has been reclaimed to the banks of the dug channel, thanks to the ill-designed (or intended?) World Bank project. Soil has even been dumped there and lorries could be seen ferrying it there!

The channel itself is simply flowing raw sewage into Lake Victoria where we get our drinking water from! Now these are just two environment-related matters I was able to witness on just one unfortunate evening in only one place, and in the city! What is happening outside Kampala where I guess NEMA is even more absent?

What is the work of NEMA? Why are our so-called environmentalists so silent on these issues? Is it because they are not ‘political’?

John Kaka
kaka.john@yahoo.co.uk

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