As the two weeks period that Kampala senior minister Hajat Minsa Kabanda gave to city vendors to vacate Kampala city streets are elapsing, there are fights among Kampala Capital City Authority (KCCA) enforcement team which have turned bloody with witchcraft also cited in a battle of who will control the juicy Kampala streets.
Hajat Sharif Buzeki the city Executive Director confirmed that KCCA has already secured more than 1980 spaces in markets outside Kampala city where the vendors will work. She advised them to appreciate the decision made and peacefully leave the streets instead of waiting to be forced off of the streets.
Her call was supported by the Chief of Defence Forces (CDF) Gen. Muhoozi Kainerugaba who said, “We left Kampala to rot democratically under Lukwago for 25 years. Those games are now over.”
With the determination to clean up Kampala City now in high gear, there is a lot of Whitcraft scare among the KCCA enforcement team after the death of their own who died under unclear circumstances and was buried last week.
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One of the senior KCCA enforcement officers told Ono Bwino reporter that they were shocked with the news of their very own, a one Ssenfuma who was found dead in his bed yet he was not suffering from any disease.
“Two weeks before his death, one of the senior enforcement officers directed him to stop commanding enforcement operations around Arua park because it has been his territory. Because he has big people in KCCA especially in the political wing, he reported the matter and the decision of his boss was reversed but he was not happy. I was there when he told him that their fight was now going to be decided by God. He just laughed but I personally warned him,” a senior KCCA enforcement officer said.
He narrated that commanding streets like Arua park, Kampala Road, Nakasero market, Duster Street, Luwum Street and streets around taxi parks and bus parks is lucrative because they collect a lot of money from vendors who are sell a lot when others are forced off the streets.
He added that KCCA bosses thought that forcing their enforcement team to dress in uniforms with body cameras would help fight corruption among the enforcement teams, but they bypassed that by collecting their bribes every Friday and it is the vendors themselves who select one person who delivers the money to the boss.
“They are not scared of being arrested, when you arrest them, you get a call asking who told you to carry out the operation and directing you to leave so and so to go. They direct us to first take them to Mini Price police where we let those with big people behind them to go and proceed with those without big people to city hall to court,” a senior operations enforcement officer said.
He further revealed that in a week, a senior enforcement officer collects not less than Shs3m noting that such people are the ones frustrating the operations against vendors in the city.
He disclosed that sometimes women who don’t have money pay through having sex with these officer.
“The problem is some of these junior field officers who use them don’t use condoms and end up impregnating them yet they refuse to take care of the children. When one gets pregnant, they make sure that they force you off the street, while others contract HIV. So, there are a lot of problems in the fight against street vendors in the city.”
However, Kampala junior minister Joseph Kabuye Kyofatogabye warned that this time, there will be no time for playing games noting that at all costs, vendors have to vacate streets so as traders with shops who are paying taxes get the opportunity to sell their goods and merchandise.
“Using President Museveni’s name is not going to help this time whether you claim that you voted for him because if you claim to have voted for him, why didn’t he get 99%!” Minister Kabuye asked.
He advised politicians especially the newly elected city Lord Mayor Ssalongo Ronald Balimwezo not to intervene during the operations to put vendors in their rightful place warning that if he dares, he will receive the full force of the State and be shown the route out of city hall as they did to outgoing Lord Mayor Ssalongo Erias Lukwago.
“It’s time to work, politics is over, they will come back in 2030. Let the newly elected leaders work for the country,” Kabuye said
