Temangalo estate construction starts
Sep 23, 2011
THE construction of modern housing units and commercial centres at the NSSF-owned Temangalo land in Wakiso district will start soon.
By CHRIS KIWAWULO
THE construction of modern housing units and commercial centres at the NSSF-owned Temangalo land in Wakiso district will start soon.
NSSF yesterday invited public bids for the proposed design and building of 1,300 housing units using modern technology.
The NSSF brand marketing manager, Olive Lumonya, said the project’s first phase will start within eight months and will cover about 125 acres. NSSF has 463 acres of land in Temangalo.
Lumonya said the first batch of houses is likely to be ready in the first 12 months from the start of construction.
Lumonya said the project targets low and middle income earners.
She said each housing unit would be sold between sh80m to sh200m.
“However, if we use cost effective technology, the price of some units will even go below sh80m,†she said.
Asked why NSSF chose to develop Temangalo land before Nsimbe, Lumonya said NSSF fully possessed Temangalo while Nsimbe land was jointly owned by the Social Security body and Mugoya Construction Company.
She disclosed that the court case on the Temangalo land had been dismissed, adding that there were no legal issues preventing the project from going ahead.
The High Court cleared NSSF of any wrongdoing in the sh11b Temangalo deal.
The suit arose in 2008 when two NGOs, Platform for Labour Action and the Anti-Corruption Coalition, jointly sued the Fund manager, claiming that the procurement process for the purchase of the land contravened the PPDA Act.
The NGOs wanted court to declare the purchase of the land null and void.
Former finance minister Ezra Suruma, in December 2008 suspended former NSSF managing director David Chandi Jamwa and chairman Prof. Mondo Kagonyera following the Temangalo saga in which the Fund bought land belonging to businessman Amos Nzeyi and Arma, a company linked to the then security minister Amama Mbabazi, at sh11b.
The price was said to be inflated. Nzeyi and Mbabazi argued that the land was sold on a ‘willing-seller-willing-buyer’ basis. Subsequently, Parliament cleared Mbabazi of wrongdoing.
THE construction of modern housing units and commercial centres at the NSSF-owned Temangalo land in Wakiso district will start soon.
NSSF yesterday invited public bids for the proposed design and building of 1,300 housing units using modern technology.
The NSSF brand marketing manager, Olive Lumonya, said the project’s first phase will start within eight months and will cover about 125 acres. NSSF has 463 acres of land in Temangalo.
Lumonya said the first batch of houses is likely to be ready in the first 12 months from the start of construction.
Lumonya said the project targets low and middle income earners.
She said each housing unit would be sold between sh80m to sh200m.
“However, if we use cost effective technology, the price of some units will even go below sh80m,†she said.
Asked why NSSF chose to develop Temangalo land before Nsimbe, Lumonya said NSSF fully possessed Temangalo while Nsimbe land was jointly owned by the Social Security body and Mugoya Construction Company.
She disclosed that the court case on the Temangalo land had been dismissed, adding that there were no legal issues preventing the project from going ahead.
The High Court cleared NSSF of any wrongdoing in the sh11b Temangalo deal.
The suit arose in 2008 when two NGOs, Platform for Labour Action and the Anti-Corruption Coalition, jointly sued the Fund manager, claiming that the procurement process for the purchase of the land contravened the PPDA Act.
The NGOs wanted court to declare the purchase of the land null and void.
Former finance minister Ezra Suruma, in December 2008 suspended former NSSF managing director David Chandi Jamwa and chairman Prof. Mondo Kagonyera following the Temangalo saga in which the Fund bought land belonging to businessman Amos Nzeyi and Arma, a company linked to the then security minister Amama Mbabazi, at sh11b.
The price was said to be inflated. Nzeyi and Mbabazi argued that the land was sold on a ‘willing-seller-willing-buyer’ basis. Subsequently, Parliament cleared Mbabazi of wrongdoing.