Mbarara, NEMA sign deal
Jul 14, 2005
MBARARA municipal council has signed a US$300,000 (about sh525m) contract with the national environmental management authority (NEMA) to manage solid waste and turn it into manure.
By Ebenezer Bifubyeka
MBARARA municipal council has signed a US$300,000 (about sh525m) contract with the National Environmental Management Authority (NEMA) to manage solid waste and turn it into manure.
The town clerk, David Bashakara, said he and NEMA’s executive director, Dr. Aryamanya Mugisha, signed the contract on Monday at NEMA House in Kampala.
Speaking during an interview on Wednesday, Bashakara said the 10-year contract followed NEMA’s concern that heaps of garbage emit toxic methane gases that cause global warming.
He said the garbage-decomposing project in Mbarara would commence by the end of August.
The assistant town clerk, Frank Barabanawe, said in a bid to control the gases from uncovered garbage from destroying the ozone layer, NEMA had acquired funds from the World Bank to fund the project in eight municipalities.
Barabanawe said the towns to benefit from the NEMA funds included Mbarara, Jinja, Fort Portal, Mbale, Masaka, Lira, Mukono and Mpigi.
He said the amount given to each area would depend on what the town intends to develop from the garbage.
MBARARA municipal council has signed a US$300,000 (about sh525m) contract with the National Environmental Management Authority (NEMA) to manage solid waste and turn it into manure.
The town clerk, David Bashakara, said he and NEMA’s executive director, Dr. Aryamanya Mugisha, signed the contract on Monday at NEMA House in Kampala.
Speaking during an interview on Wednesday, Bashakara said the 10-year contract followed NEMA’s concern that heaps of garbage emit toxic methane gases that cause global warming.
He said the garbage-decomposing project in Mbarara would commence by the end of August.
The assistant town clerk, Frank Barabanawe, said in a bid to control the gases from uncovered garbage from destroying the ozone layer, NEMA had acquired funds from the World Bank to fund the project in eight municipalities.
Barabanawe said the towns to benefit from the NEMA funds included Mbarara, Jinja, Fort Portal, Mbale, Masaka, Lira, Mukono and Mpigi.
He said the amount given to each area would depend on what the town intends to develop from the garbage.