KCC denies exclusive rights to Tumpeco
Apr 04, 2005
Kampala City Council (KCC) has denied giving exclusive rights of printing plot numbers for city buildings to Uganda Metal, Plastic and Enamel Company (TUMPECO).
By Emmy Allio and Mikaili Sseppuya
Kampala City Council (KCC) has denied giving exclusive rights of printing plot numbers for city buildings to Uganda Metal, Plastic and Enamel Company (TUMPECO).
City tycoon Gordon Wavamunno who owns GM Tumpeco has been advertising on WBS for building owners to place orders for sign posts at sh17,500.
The adverts runs as follows:
“Kampala City Council wishes to announce that it is now the council policy that all buildings in the city should display plot numbers.
Kampala residents are advised to get these plot numbers from GM Tumpeco showroom at UMA show grounds or at GM Tumpeco in Ntinda Industrial Area.....â€
Dissenting voices at City Hall said KCC administrators should have sought the council’s resolution to authorise GM Tumpeco to print the plot numbers.
If all the estimated 400,000 building owners in the city comply with KCC’s demands, then Tumpeco would earn sh7b.
The number of buildings in the city is ascertained from the 2002 Population and Housing Census which puts the city population at 1,189,142.
KCC sources said there was concern from councillors that GM Tumpeco should be given such a deal without KCC receiving part of the revenue.
“It is a case where somebody must have an interest. Such a deal cannot proceed without some sort of financial deal arrangement between KCC officials and Tumpeco,†the sources said.
KCC spokesman Simon Muhumuza said KCC invoked a regulation stipulating that property owners identify their plots with names and numbers.
“We then talked to Tumpeco after realising the need for quality standardised name-plot, which Tumpeco could do. Tumpeco gave us a reasonable figure for a metal name plate,†Muhumuza said.
We are not directing property owners to get the name plates from Tumpeco, we are showing them where plates of the desired minimum quality are.â€
“If they want marble plates but they are more expensive and of better quality, then they are free to get them. What we want is a standardised and organised look in the city,†he added.
Kampala City Council (KCC) has denied giving exclusive rights of printing plot numbers for city buildings to Uganda Metal, Plastic and Enamel Company (TUMPECO).
City tycoon Gordon Wavamunno who owns GM Tumpeco has been advertising on WBS for building owners to place orders for sign posts at sh17,500.
The adverts runs as follows:
“Kampala City Council wishes to announce that it is now the council policy that all buildings in the city should display plot numbers.
Kampala residents are advised to get these plot numbers from GM Tumpeco showroom at UMA show grounds or at GM Tumpeco in Ntinda Industrial Area.....â€
Dissenting voices at City Hall said KCC administrators should have sought the council’s resolution to authorise GM Tumpeco to print the plot numbers.
If all the estimated 400,000 building owners in the city comply with KCC’s demands, then Tumpeco would earn sh7b.
The number of buildings in the city is ascertained from the 2002 Population and Housing Census which puts the city population at 1,189,142.
KCC sources said there was concern from councillors that GM Tumpeco should be given such a deal without KCC receiving part of the revenue.
“It is a case where somebody must have an interest. Such a deal cannot proceed without some sort of financial deal arrangement between KCC officials and Tumpeco,†the sources said.
KCC spokesman Simon Muhumuza said KCC invoked a regulation stipulating that property owners identify their plots with names and numbers.
“We then talked to Tumpeco after realising the need for quality standardised name-plot, which Tumpeco could do. Tumpeco gave us a reasonable figure for a metal name plate,†Muhumuza said.
We are not directing property owners to get the name plates from Tumpeco, we are showing them where plates of the desired minimum quality are.â€
“If they want marble plates but they are more expensive and of better quality, then they are free to get them. What we want is a standardised and organised look in the city,†he added.