Diplomats protest over Kololo’s ‘Tower of Babel’
Dec 22, 2003
AN incomplete four-storey building is stirring the calm in the posh Kololo estate in Kampala.
By Alfred Wasike and Jude Etyang
AN incomplete four-storey building is stirring the calm in the posh Kololo estate in Kampala.
British and Korean diplomats, a Danish Government official and several Ugandans are up in arms against a new neighbour on the upmarket Kololo Hill for threatening their security and privacy by constructing a structure taller than their residences.
The angry residents have petitioned the Kampala City Council (KCC) to block Patrick Bitature, the proprietor of Simba Telecom, from building a five-storey mansion against the required three-storey limit for houses on Elgon Terrace, near the Kololo Airstrip.
The team is led by the Honorary Consul of Korea, Sung Hwan Kim, a senior diplomat at the British High Commission, J.J. Hustutt, a senior official with the Danish International Development Agency, Jorn Straw Nielson, Ugandans; Paul Musoke, Kephas Kiwanuka and Gladys Ssebugenyi.
They are complaining that Bitature’s building is a security and a privacy threat.
Investigations by The New Vision have revealed that Bitature bought the semi-finished building from former energy minister Richard Kaijuka.
“I have only built up to three floors and that is within the rules of the area. I don’t have plans to intrude on anyone’s privacy or threaten my neighbours’ security,†Bitature said.
But KCC planner, Charles Kyamanywa, said, “I am going to discuss this matter with my colleagues and we shall make a decision. We had earlier stopped him but he defied the orders. A four or five-storey building at Elgon Terrace? At Kololo? That is not possible!â€
The petition was sent to KCC on December 15.
AN incomplete four-storey building is stirring the calm in the posh Kololo estate in Kampala.
British and Korean diplomats, a Danish Government official and several Ugandans are up in arms against a new neighbour on the upmarket Kololo Hill for threatening their security and privacy by constructing a structure taller than their residences.
The angry residents have petitioned the Kampala City Council (KCC) to block Patrick Bitature, the proprietor of Simba Telecom, from building a five-storey mansion against the required three-storey limit for houses on Elgon Terrace, near the Kololo Airstrip.
The team is led by the Honorary Consul of Korea, Sung Hwan Kim, a senior diplomat at the British High Commission, J.J. Hustutt, a senior official with the Danish International Development Agency, Jorn Straw Nielson, Ugandans; Paul Musoke, Kephas Kiwanuka and Gladys Ssebugenyi.
They are complaining that Bitature’s building is a security and a privacy threat.
Investigations by The New Vision have revealed that Bitature bought the semi-finished building from former energy minister Richard Kaijuka.
“I have only built up to three floors and that is within the rules of the area. I don’t have plans to intrude on anyone’s privacy or threaten my neighbours’ security,†Bitature said.
But KCC planner, Charles Kyamanywa, said, “I am going to discuss this matter with my colleagues and we shall make a decision. We had earlier stopped him but he defied the orders. A four or five-storey building at Elgon Terrace? At Kololo? That is not possible!â€
The petition was sent to KCC on December 15.