A section of opposition legislators has expressed their dissatisfaction with the sacking of only three top officials at Kampala Capital City Authority (KCCA), wondering why the two Ministers of Kampala, Minsa Kabanda and Kabuye Kyofatogabye, weren’t also dismissed.
MPs led by Joesph Ssewungu Gonzaga of the Kalungu West and Timothy Batuwa of the Jinja South said the president should have dismissed the two Ministers of Kampala first, who have been sitting in Cabinet every day before dismissing Kisaka and the team.
According to Ssewungu, the president reduced the funds dedicated to Kampala after losing votes in the city, during the 2021 presidential elections.
“Remember when Jennifer Musisi was the Executive Director? The President, under his directive, gave KCCA a lot of money, thinking that he was going to win elections. When Museveni lost in Kampala, he reduced the money by half. Meaning, for him, he thinks about people by winning votes, not service delivery,” Ssewungu said.
He further highlighted that the taxes collected in Kampala almost triple all the other areas of the country, but KCCA isn’t given enough funds to do their work, and the mistake is with the ministers.
Ssewungu added that dismissing the KCCA officials is negligible given the fact that the true cause of the Kiteezi garbage slide has not been strategically reacted to either.
“The manner in which they were dismissed was improper. Kisaka failed to do her work diligently because she was not given money, and even the other one coming will fail because of the weakness of funding from the government,” Ssewungu revealed.
On their hand, Timothy Batuwa also blamed the Cabinet Ministers, stating that the Constitution stipulates clearly that the Cabinet will formulate policies, and when there was a landslide in Kiteezi, there was no policy on waste management in KCCA, and the Ministers also did nothing.
The opposition reactions follow the dismissal of Dorothy Kisaka, David Luyimbazi, and Daniel Okello over the mismanagement of the Kiteezi Landfill by President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni on Tuesday 24, 2024. The garbage collapse occurred on August 10, 2024, killing 35 people, while 11 people still remain unaccounted for.
