KCCA demands for more garbage collection trucks

By Deo Wasswa

The Kampala capital city authority has failed to agree with policy directive made by the cabinet in regard to garbage collection in communities.

According to the cabinet decision, KCCA is supposed to collect garbag in slum areas at no cost and only charge residents in high end areas.

Due to inadequate capacity by KCCA to collect garbage, it always subcontracts the Concessionaires to collect garbage in some communities with some charges.

Apparently KCCA's capacity can only enable them to collect only 50% of the garbage in communities.

Speaking during the council meeting today, the acting executive director at KCCA, Engineer Kitaka Andrew has noted that before implementing the cabinet decision as KCCA will first go on ground and do an assessment to see who is capable and not capable of paying for garbage because they are also rich people who reside in slum areas.

Kitaka has also observed the need to increase budget so as to attain more garbage tracks to improve on garbage collection in the city.

Apparently KCCA has only 25 tracks that collect garbage in the 5 divisions that makes up Kampala