By Mugula Dan
The Kampala Capital City Authority (KCCA) is still awaiting the Auditor General’s report to determine the exact amount of compensation to be paid to people who lost their homes in Kiteezi, Kyadondo, when garbage overflowed and buried their homes, killing more than 35 people.
Deputy Minister Kabuye Kyofatogabye said KCCA was responsible for compensating 40 families who were buried, while the prime minister’s office compensated 24 families affected by the road cutting project that was supposed to be used by Excavator vehicles to excavate the buried rubbish.
The Minister said there were still many issues to be addressed, and there were many other families in the 200-metre area around the landfill, who were ordered to evacuate the site, their issues have not been resolved either.
The Kiteezi landslide, which has been collected from Kampala since 1996, erupted and flooded in late July 2024, burying houses and killing 35 people, while others are said to have remained missing.
KCCA is still struggling to find another landfill.
District leaders are frustrated that KCCA has still failed to identify the place where it should dump its garbage, saying that now the vehicles that transport it find the compound where it is dumped, which is likely to cause diseases.