The Kampala Capital City Authority, KCCA working with National Water & Sewerage Cooperation together with partners like GIZ, Samaritan Purse and Amref Health have commenced a program to construct two public toilets per parish.
According to the Minister for KCCA and Metropolitan affairs Betty Amongi, the construction of 7 model public toilets is set to begin this month in select parishes across the five Divisions of Kampala.
“Government through KCCA and NWSC is in the final stages of procurement for service providers to construct fifty state of the art toilets across the city. These toilets will be constructed in public or communal space such as taxi parks, markets and other areas of high convergence like Constitutional Square, Non-Motorized Transport Route. The public shall pay not more than UGX200 per person as per the directive of His Excellency the President” The minister said.
Meanwhile, government through KCCA will on 14th December 2020 launch the third phase of the relief emptying in informal settlements where emptying for at least 1,000 households in all divisions and 200 latrines.
According to Amongi, the market rate of emptying a pit latrine is Ugx 100,000 for one cesspool trip or Ugx 25,000 for one barrel, but the emptying shall be subsidized at 25% of the market rate Ugx 75,000 and Ugx 18,000 for a 4000ltr trip and 120ltr barrel respectively.
The president has also directed KCCA to collect garbage from informal settlements at no cost. KCCA and its solid waste management contractors, that is; Nabugabo Updeal Joint Venture (NUJV), HomeKlin Uganda Limited and Kampala Solid Waste Management Consortium (KSWMC), have committee to fulfill the directive by a signed memorandum.
According to the MOU, free garbage collection shall be done from households located in the 35 informal/low income zones (slums). However, this shall not apply to businesses found in these informal/low income settlements.
“The garbage collections will be done every Wednesday of the week using the ‘bring the truck’ mode of collection. For each time of collection, a household shall be allowed 100 liters (volume of gunny bag to park 50kg sugar). Garbage collection from household in the selected zones whose waste will be collected on other days of the week and of higher volumes than the one stated above, will be done at negotiable fees in range of UGX 3000-UGX 30,000 per month depending on the volume of waste and frequency of collection” The minister added.
