Mbarara stadium to be shifted from Kakyeka

The planned construction of a modern Stadium by government for Western region in Mbarara Municipality will not be at Kakyeka Stadium.

This is after the Mbarara Municipal council and Physical planning department realized that the current size of Kakyeka Stadium land, will not be enough for the new facility.

Mbarara Municipal authorities have therefore secured a 25-acre land in Ruti, along the Mbarara-Kabale Highway, just 3kms from the center of Mbarara town.

The identified land belongs to National Forestry Authority but while speaking to the press on Tuesday, Mbarara Town Mayor Wilson Tumwine confirmed that the municipal council has made an agreement with the NFA to have this part of land used for the erection of the facility.

"We shall not have the new Stadium at Kakyeka because it was realized that the size of the Kakyeka plot was not enough to accommodate it. Instead, we have secured the land in Ruti, where the stadium will be constructed," Tumwine Said.

In 2012, President Yoweri Museveni gave a go ahead to the Prime Minister's office to initiate talks with the Chinese Government to see that reconstruction of Aki Bua Stadium in Lira takes effect, under which the same was to be done with Kakyeka in Mbarara.

The Government then entered talks with a Chinese firm, Anhui Foreign Economic Construction Group Company (AFECC) to draw model plans of the facility in Mbarara.

The stadiums will each have a 500 seater Pavilion, a protected perimeter fence, modern dressing rooms, boardrooms, stores and a general capacity of between 15,000-20,000 people.