Sebaggala-backed Escom gets city garbage contract
Mar 08, 2007
Escom has been awarded a contract to clean the city to international standards, Dan Matovu, the personal assistant to the Kampala Mayor, has revealed.
By Mikaili Sseppuya
Escom has been awarded a contract to clean the city to international standards, Dan Matovu, the personal assistant to the Kampala Mayor, has revealed.
Escom was formed by by Kampala Mayor Nasser Sebaggala soon after he was elected. It was originally composed of volunteers. Its workers put on green and yellow (Kampala City Council colours) overcoats.
Escom was awarded the contract by one of the organising committees for the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting slated for November.
“Escom will do the cleaning for the year. It was ‘officially’ launched last Thursday by the Mayor and his executive. It is already working.
“The company is, however, still going through the formalities,†Matovu said over the telephone,
Some city officials, however, said they were unaware of Escom and had not been informed of the launch, which took place at the Mayor’s Gardens.
“We do not even know the details of the contract,†the officials said.
Sebaggala said Escom was formed because the regular cleaners had ‘failed.’
Escom has been awarded a contract to clean the city to international standards, Dan Matovu, the personal assistant to the Kampala Mayor, has revealed.
Escom was formed by by Kampala Mayor Nasser Sebaggala soon after he was elected. It was originally composed of volunteers. Its workers put on green and yellow (Kampala City Council colours) overcoats.
Escom was awarded the contract by one of the organising committees for the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting slated for November.
“Escom will do the cleaning for the year. It was ‘officially’ launched last Thursday by the Mayor and his executive. It is already working.
“The company is, however, still going through the formalities,†Matovu said over the telephone,
Some city officials, however, said they were unaware of Escom and had not been informed of the launch, which took place at the Mayor’s Gardens.
“We do not even know the details of the contract,†the officials said.
Sebaggala said Escom was formed because the regular cleaners had ‘failed.’