‘Greenboat Prefers Court’
Mar 19, 2003
GREENBOAT Entertainment Limited (GBEL) recently vowed to defend itself legally if Kampala City Council (KCC) insists that it is supposed to compensate motorists who had bought stickers in advance.
By Ricks Kayizzi
GREENBOAT Entertainment Limited (GBEL) recently vowed to defend itself legally if Kampala City Council (KCC) insists that it is supposed to compensate motorists who had bought stickers in advance.
“KCC is the landlord and it has to clean its house. We no longer have anything to do with street parking or what ensued from the contract that was breached,†said Jackson Ndawula, the company’s administrative manager.
He said GBEL was in a dilemma because it had no way of recovering the large amount of money motorists who defaulted on parking charges owed it. This had inflated its losses, he said.
Ndawula said although they invested about $1m (about sh2b) in importation of cameras, uniforms, computers and on-road markings, they had not yet recovered it.
He said GBEL spent millions of shillings on staff training but Multiplex, the current street parking managers, just came up and took all their workforce.
“All our monitors, inspectors and branch clerks are the ones occupying the Multiplex offices. I do not know whether there is a legal framework for us to confront these people,†he said.
He said when their contract ended in September and they were given a go-ahead by KCC to continue operating, they thought the contract would be automatically renewed and they printed thousands of stickers.
He said KCC was heavily indebted to GBEL on the infrastructure it put up in the city.
Efforts to talk to Multiplex officials were futile.
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GREENBOAT Entertainment Limited (GBEL) recently vowed to defend itself legally if Kampala City Council (KCC) insists that it is supposed to compensate motorists who had bought stickers in advance.
“KCC is the landlord and it has to clean its house. We no longer have anything to do with street parking or what ensued from the contract that was breached,†said Jackson Ndawula, the company’s administrative manager.
He said GBEL was in a dilemma because it had no way of recovering the large amount of money motorists who defaulted on parking charges owed it. This had inflated its losses, he said.
Ndawula said although they invested about $1m (about sh2b) in importation of cameras, uniforms, computers and on-road markings, they had not yet recovered it.
He said GBEL spent millions of shillings on staff training but Multiplex, the current street parking managers, just came up and took all their workforce.
“All our monitors, inspectors and branch clerks are the ones occupying the Multiplex offices. I do not know whether there is a legal framework for us to confront these people,†he said.
He said when their contract ended in September and they were given a go-ahead by KCC to continue operating, they thought the contract would be automatically renewed and they printed thousands of stickers.
He said KCC was heavily indebted to GBEL on the infrastructure it put up in the city.
Efforts to talk to Multiplex officials were futile.
Ends