Govt resurrects Kireka-Banda redevelopment plan

John Masaba
Journalist @New Vision
Nov 02, 2022

GOVERNMENT | REDEVELOP | KIREKA SLUM

The Government has revealed plans to redevelop the Kireka slum in a bid to transform the informal settlement into a well-designed and planned human settlement.

The redevelopment will be done under the Kireka Slum Redevelopment project in the Kireka-Banda slum area.

The urban poor will be included in the planning, provision of views, decision-making, and implementation, according to the Ministry of Lands, Housing, and Urban Development.

The overall objective of the project is to enhance the urban environment and social economic development through the adoption of mixed development approaches and development partnerships.

The project has been on hold since 2013 following controversy over who owns the project land, especially in the Kasokoso slum area.

Kasokoso is located in the Banda and Kireka areas, sitting on a hill off the Kampala-Jinja highway, five kilometers away from Kampala.

It also borders Bweyogerere, Nakawa, Mutungo and Kirinya.

It borders Kabaka Ronald Muwenda Mutebi’s palace and is home to low-income earners, soldiers, policemen, students, casual laborers, and refugees who ran away from northern Uganda and settled in Acholi quarters.

The land in question was granted by the British Government to Kireka Estates Uganda Limited (KEUL) on July 3, 1930, as a crown grant measuring about 425 acres in Kyadondo.

According to National Housing and Construction Company Limited between 1966 and 1968, KEUL leased 292 acres to NHCCL for 99 years. In 2012, NHCCL acquired revisionary interest, making it a freehold owner.

NHCCL has since paid sh13b to KEUL for the land.

Sources in NHCCL say the land was mostly left idle due to political instability. But between 1989 and 1991, people occupied the idle land and opened up small settlements there, causing a sprawling slum there.

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