The Daily Monitor’s head honcho, Daniel Kalinaki, makes one of the best arguments against the Central Government’s proposed takeover of the running of Kampala City.
Kampala does not need anyone to manage it. The city manages itself by the grace of God and the fortitude of its residents. We pay private companies to collect our garbage; build walls, hire guards for our security; replace the shock absorbers in our cars when the potholes wear them out; tarmac the roads to our residences; pay to use what’s left of the city’s only public park; produce our own electricity half of the time off generators and ‘inverters’; pay street kids not to break into our cars and generally get by despite, and not because of, the city administrators.
So you can fight all you want for what’s left of Kampala, all you bloody politicians. Just don’t claim to be doing it in the name of its residents.
Ata boy!
nice!
Noted.
Atta boy indeed!
I like Mr. Kalinaki.
Brilliant.
nice, noted, atta boy indeed, i like Mr. Kalinaki, and indeed, brilliant!
the only time you see council officers is when they are ’stealing’ stuff from street vendors.
Bravo!!
“you can fight all you want for what’s left of Kampala, all you bloody politicians. Just don’t claim to be doing it in the name of its residents”
This is so poignant but Alas!!
All I keep asking myself is where do all the graduates with a BA of urban Planning go ? I know they do not have much influence on running this God forsaken city but planning in KLA has hit a new level of absurdity.
clap clap
they really dont care about us!
I think I Love him….
say it!!!!!
Sounds just like the situation in Kenya.