‘Bidandi can’t revoke tenders’
Dec 02, 2002
LOCAL government minister Jaberi Bidandi Ssali has no powers to nullify the tenders awarded to city tycoon Hassan Basajjabala’s companies to manage St. Balikuddembe and Nakasero markets in Kampala, the companies’ managers have said, reports Catherine
LOCAL government minister Jaberi Bidandi Ssali has no powers to nullify the tenders awarded to city tycoon Hassan Basajjabala’s companies to manage St. Balikuddembe and Nakasero markets in Kampala, the companies’ managers have said, reports Catherine Ntabadde.
Wilfred Niwagaba, the company secretary for Sheila Investments Uganda Ltd, the company that won the tender to manage Nakasero Market, said Bidandi was “illiterate about the law.â€
“Bidandi is going into the law which he does not know. It is court which can nullify the tender, not Bidandi. His word and wish cannot work unless he is going to use force. We are going to manage the market because we won the tender. Let him go to court,†Niwagaba told The New Vision in an interview yesterday.
Bidandi on Saturday declared null and void the tenders to manage the markets which Kampala City Council (KCC) had awarded to basajjabalaba on Friday.
The minister said vendors should have a stake in the management of the markets. he said one of the companies which won the tender was not registered.
The corporation secretary of Victoria International, Obed Mwebesa, said, “The tender was awarded in the right way and whatever the minister is saying is unrealistic. The company was registered and a certificate of incorporation which confirms the existence of the company was brought to the naked eyes of the minister several times.â€
“We think there must be something else the minister is up to. We are managing the market and we shall continue to do so,†Mwebesa said.
Sheila and Victoria took over the markets on December 1.
Nakasero vendors said Sheila officials had not talked to them. In St. Balikuddembe, employees of Victoria were seen collecting dues in the market yard.
Wilfred Niwagaba, the company secretary for Sheila Investments Uganda Ltd, the company that won the tender to manage Nakasero Market, said Bidandi was “illiterate about the law.â€
“Bidandi is going into the law which he does not know. It is court which can nullify the tender, not Bidandi. His word and wish cannot work unless he is going to use force. We are going to manage the market because we won the tender. Let him go to court,†Niwagaba told The New Vision in an interview yesterday.
Bidandi on Saturday declared null and void the tenders to manage the markets which Kampala City Council (KCC) had awarded to basajjabalaba on Friday.
The minister said vendors should have a stake in the management of the markets. he said one of the companies which won the tender was not registered.
The corporation secretary of Victoria International, Obed Mwebesa, said, “The tender was awarded in the right way and whatever the minister is saying is unrealistic. The company was registered and a certificate of incorporation which confirms the existence of the company was brought to the naked eyes of the minister several times.â€
“We think there must be something else the minister is up to. We are managing the market and we shall continue to do so,†Mwebesa said.
Sheila and Victoria took over the markets on December 1.
Nakasero vendors said Sheila officials had not talked to them. In St. Balikuddembe, employees of Victoria were seen collecting dues in the market yard.