40 companies compete for Kiteezi landfill
May 16, 2013
Over 40 companies have expressed interest in constructing and taking over East Africa’s largest sanitary garbage site in Kiteezi, Kampala Capital City Authority (KCCA) Executive director, Jennifer Musisi has revealed.
By Juliet Waiswa
Over 40 companies have expressed interest in constructing and taking over East Africa’s largest sanitary garbage site in Kiteezi, Kampala Capital City Authority (KCCA) Executive director, Jennifer Musisi has revealed.
The companies Musisi said will also be responsible for constructing a new site once Kiteezi is filled. KCCA has purchased another six acre extension at the same site as the original Kiteezi’s life span has now expired.
“We have purchased another 6 acres at the same site, as we look for four more dumping sites for the city,” Musisi said.
The site located in Wakiso district is Kampala’s only dumping site which shares neigbourhood with Wakiso.
She said that the site is also filled up with garbage and have no capacity to handle anymore garbage mainly ferried in from the city.
Residents around the area have in the past complained about the stench and the leachate surrounding the area, posing a threat to their lives.
Last November KCCA entered into partnership with the International Finance Corporation (IFC) and in the partnership, IFC is focusing on providing advisory services to the authority on how to control and manage waste generated in the city.
IFC, a World Bank funded group will also fund the city with a sum of U$ 1m for consultancy work, community sensitization, city zoning and recycling services for one year. Under this programme KCCA will also contribute U$100,000.
While addressing over 40 investors at the Lake Victoria Serena Hotel, Musisi said the city is looking for a solution on how to manage solid waste in Kampala, urging that KCCA is trying to identify, companies which will transport, dispose and recycle waste generated.
When the company is identified, KCCA will retain street sweeping, bush cutting and drainage distilling.
“The authority received 86 companies, which expressed interest in the collection, transportation, disposal and treatment of garbage. 50% of them were Ugandan but only 40 companies have reached the tenders stage,” Musisi revealed.
In the first phase IFC will carry out studies, develop a sensitization system through which communities will be educated on how to manage waste, from their houses to the dumping sites.
IFC, investment officer transaction advisory-PPP AFRICA, Christopher Olobo explained that waste disposed at Kiteezi land fill has increase from 1,400 tonnes daily to 1,700 emphasizing the need for three other sites.
Olobo said that IFC intends to also provide knowledge on how power can be generated out of waste, urging that there is need to design, build, operate and maintain a sanitary landfill at Kiteezi (and any extension new site identified) in compliance with Ugandan and international standards.
The investor demanded an assurance from the authority on whether they will be given permits as some were claiming to be foreign companies.
Others were demanding for sensitization programmes to the public on waste disposal.