IN BRIEF
May 31, 2004
Residents of Butamira in Jinja district were not fully compensated after being disposed from Butamira Forest Reserve
Residents not compensated
Residents of Butamira in Jinja district were not fully compensated after being disposed from Butamira Forest Reserve, which was given to Kakira Sugar Works. Speaking to students at Makerere Univeristy, Godber Tumushabe, executive director of the Advocates Coalition for Environment and Development (ACODE) said some of the funds were deducted on grounds that the farmers had to pay tax. Tumushabe who was presenting a paper on environmental governance said they were pursuing this case in the courts of law so that the farmers could get redress.
MP sues KCC over garbage
The MP for Kyadondo East, Sitenda Sebalu, has petitioned Nakawa court to restrain Kampala City Council (KCC) from causing pollution at Kiteezi garbage dumping site.
He claims KCC is poisoning the environment and exposing them to diseases. Sebalu wants court to declare KCC negligent because it has failed to treat and recycle the garbage. KCC has since 1997 been dumping garbage, at Kiteezi, where Sebalu insists is a residential area hence unfit for the exercise.
WID to decentralise
Wetlands Inspection Division (WID) is decentralising its administrative work beginning next financial year. “The country is to be divided into four regions. Central region will be based in Masaka, western in Mbarara, eastern in Mbale while norhtern in Lira,†says Norah Namakambo, senior wetlands officer. “The district environmental officers will laise with the regional wetlands officer in the management of wetlands,†she said.
Namakambo adds it is only when they fail to solve a problem in the region that it will be referred to as the WID headquarters.
Residents of Butamira in Jinja district were not fully compensated after being disposed from Butamira Forest Reserve, which was given to Kakira Sugar Works. Speaking to students at Makerere Univeristy, Godber Tumushabe, executive director of the Advocates Coalition for Environment and Development (ACODE) said some of the funds were deducted on grounds that the farmers had to pay tax. Tumushabe who was presenting a paper on environmental governance said they were pursuing this case in the courts of law so that the farmers could get redress.
MP sues KCC over garbage
The MP for Kyadondo East, Sitenda Sebalu, has petitioned Nakawa court to restrain Kampala City Council (KCC) from causing pollution at Kiteezi garbage dumping site.
He claims KCC is poisoning the environment and exposing them to diseases. Sebalu wants court to declare KCC negligent because it has failed to treat and recycle the garbage. KCC has since 1997 been dumping garbage, at Kiteezi, where Sebalu insists is a residential area hence unfit for the exercise.
WID to decentralise
Wetlands Inspection Division (WID) is decentralising its administrative work beginning next financial year. “The country is to be divided into four regions. Central region will be based in Masaka, western in Mbarara, eastern in Mbale while norhtern in Lira,†says Norah Namakambo, senior wetlands officer. “The district environmental officers will laise with the regional wetlands officer in the management of wetlands,†she said.
Namakambo adds it is only when they fail to solve a problem in the region that it will be referred to as the WID headquarters.