Save Lugogo from KCC
Sep 23, 2005
KAMPALA City Council has repossessed the Lugogo spots complex comprising four prime plots covering eight acres in Kololo. This disgraceful action casts a long shadow over the probity of the Kampala Land Board.
KAMPALA City Council has repossessed the Lugogo spots complex comprising four prime plots covering eight acres in Kololo. This disgraceful action casts a long shadow over the probity of the Kampala Land Board.
The Lugogo complex is the headquarters of the National Council of Sports and contains tennis courts, a cricket pitch, hockey pitch, indoor stadium, pavilion, clubhouse, and hostel as well as undeveloped land.
The complex was built in the 1950s and at that time belonged to the Uganda Sports Union. The USU collapsed in the 1970s and was succeeded by the NCS. However, the land titles remain in the name of the USU. The Kampala Land Board has exploited this anomaly to justify its hijack of the Lugogo properties.
Presumably KCC wants to sell off some of the Lugogo land for development.
However, KCC should not be in the real estate business – it should be in the business of making Kampala a better place to live and work for all its residents and visitors.
The Lugogo sports complex is a vital facility for Kampala and also for Uganda as it accommodates our only international standard cricket and hockey pitches.
Lugogo has been at the heart of Uganda’s sporting community for the last 50 years. In the long-term interests of the capital city, KCC should be struggling to protect the Lugogo complex, not to carve it up.
This decision must be reversed.
The Ministry of Education and Sports has lodged a caveat on the titles but it should now intervene decisively so that the NCS, which is in charge of national sports administration, receives clear title to the whole Lugogo complex.
The Lugogo complex is the headquarters of the National Council of Sports and contains tennis courts, a cricket pitch, hockey pitch, indoor stadium, pavilion, clubhouse, and hostel as well as undeveloped land.
The complex was built in the 1950s and at that time belonged to the Uganda Sports Union. The USU collapsed in the 1970s and was succeeded by the NCS. However, the land titles remain in the name of the USU. The Kampala Land Board has exploited this anomaly to justify its hijack of the Lugogo properties.
Presumably KCC wants to sell off some of the Lugogo land for development.
However, KCC should not be in the real estate business – it should be in the business of making Kampala a better place to live and work for all its residents and visitors.
The Lugogo sports complex is a vital facility for Kampala and also for Uganda as it accommodates our only international standard cricket and hockey pitches.
Lugogo has been at the heart of Uganda’s sporting community for the last 50 years. In the long-term interests of the capital city, KCC should be struggling to protect the Lugogo complex, not to carve it up.
This decision must be reversed.
The Ministry of Education and Sports has lodged a caveat on the titles but it should now intervene decisively so that the NCS, which is in charge of national sports administration, receives clear title to the whole Lugogo complex.