Kakyeka gets a slim 10m allocation in Mbarara LG budget

The facility that has faced the wrath of FUFA by being locked out of the Uganda Premier League matches hosting due to its ever appalling state  will now have a 10m budget allocation in the next financial year.

The meager allocation, which comes in for the first time in the history of Mbarara Local Government, will only cater for cleaning all the bushy areas beyond the football playing area and also for the new iron sheets to fence off the outer part.

"We have finally allocated the little money to Kakyeka in order to cater for the affordable maintenance of the facility. We surely don't have money for the entire facelift on the Stadium," Said Mbarara District chairman JB Tumusiime.

Tumusiime said they are now looking a private company or individual to work with to re-develop the facility to meet Regional, National and International standards.

In 2012, The Government of Uganda promised to work on 7 stadia in seven different regions in the country and even entered talks with a Chinese firm, Anhui Foreign Economic Construction Group Company (AFECC), to draw model plans of the new-look Kakyeka.

And the same firm which was a front runner to win the contract of the construction that was going to slated to start in June under the funding of both The Chinese and Uganda Governments, but that has come to pass.

Tumisiime says the Mbarara Local government has since tried to resort to the public-private partnership (PPP) in vein, even when new designs of the proposed stadium had been drawn.

Top flight side Mbarara City and FUFA Big League Nyamityobora use Kakyeka stadium as their home ground, but Nyamityobora has started working on the renovation of their home ground in Nyamityobora.