KCC sells Nakivubo public toilet
KAMPALA city council (KCC) has sold off Nakivubo Stadium’s car park public toilet to a city tycoon.
By Pascal Kwesiga
KAMPALA city council (KCC) has sold off Nakivubo Stadium’s car park public toilet to a city tycoon.
The toilet located on plot 4A on Namirembe road was sold to Drake Lubega, who is setting up a commercial building on the land next to the Kalita Bus Company parking yard.
Lubega, who also owns the bus terminal, recently threatened to do away with the park and develop it into a commercial complex.
Several vendors who were operating on the road reserve have since been displaced.
The stadium manager, Ivan Lubega, said a recent survey showed that the toilet was outside the stadium land. “We tried to stop him (Lubega) from developing the land after he had demolished the public toilet, but a survey revealed that it was outside our land,†he said.
Efforts to get comments from KCC authorities yesterday failed. The KCC deputy spokesperson, Herbert Ssemakula, said he needed time to get information on the matter.
Shortly after nomination last week, President Yoweri Museveni, while addressing a rally at Kololo, criticised the city authorities for privatising the management of public toilets. He promised to build 300 public toilets in the city if elected in next year’s polls.
The vendors, who have been operating near the toilet, are unhappy about the development. “We have been left to look for an alternative place to conduct our businesses. They cannot pay us because we didn’t own that property,†a vendor said.
New Vision could not readily establish the number of affected vendors and the amount of money Lubega paid KCC.
KAMPALA city council (KCC) has sold off Nakivubo Stadium’s car park public toilet to a city tycoon.
The toilet located on plot 4A on Namirembe road was sold to Drake Lubega, who is setting up a commercial building on the land next to the Kalita Bus Company parking yard.
Lubega, who also owns the bus terminal, recently threatened to do away with the park and develop it into a commercial complex.
Several vendors who were operating on the road reserve have since been displaced.
The stadium manager, Ivan Lubega, said a recent survey showed that the toilet was outside the stadium land. “We tried to stop him (Lubega) from developing the land after he had demolished the public toilet, but a survey revealed that it was outside our land,†he said.
Efforts to get comments from KCC authorities yesterday failed. The KCC deputy spokesperson, Herbert Ssemakula, said he needed time to get information on the matter.
Shortly after nomination last week, President Yoweri Museveni, while addressing a rally at Kololo, criticised the city authorities for privatising the management of public toilets. He promised to build 300 public toilets in the city if elected in next year’s polls.
The vendors, who have been operating near the toilet, are unhappy about the development. “We have been left to look for an alternative place to conduct our businesses. They cannot pay us because we didn’t own that property,†a vendor said.
New Vision could not readily establish the number of affected vendors and the amount of money Lubega paid KCC.