KAMPALA– President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni has instructed the prime minister Robinah Nabbanja to allow city businessman Hamis Kigundu to elect buildings on the Nakivubo drainage channel.
The president released the order after city dwellers and leaders raised an alarm over Hamis move to cover the channel saying that this will result into flooding in the down city of Kampala.
Museveni noted that he received a good proposal from the business man Hamis that keeping the channel open risks blockages and flooding.
“I have got a very good proposal from Ham Kiggundu dated the 25th of July, 2025, regarding the Nakivubo Drainage Channel. Ham points out the fact that the channel is open, invites people to throw in rubbish including plastics, feaces, etc, all of which disgust the people contiguous to the channel, lead to blockages of the channel and flooding”
The president ordered the businessman be allowed to construct buildings on the channel as the only way to recover his money of upgrading the channel.
“His proposal is imaginative and simple. Allow him to cover the channel after cleaning it and strengthening it at his own cost. What a really godly proposal? How will he recover his money? Simple. Allow him to build properties above it that will bring back the money”
Yesterday the Kampala Lord Mayor Erias Lukwago warned the businessman to cease operations at the channel saying that this will lead to continuous floods in the down town.
By press time part of Nakivubo drainage channel had been sealed off from Shamba to st. Balikuddembe market Owino.
