Kampala Capital City Authority -KCCA has partially overcome the hurdle of repossessing over 2 acres of land at centenary park belonging to Nnalongo Estates Company for the fly-over project.
The land that seats on 4.7 acres was leased to Nnalongo Estates Company by KCCA.
Previously, KCCA was embroiled in a struggle with the company to take back all the land for redevelopment with the later rejecting to hand it back, but a resolution hasn’t been reached yet as both parties await the President’s response in 2 weeks time.
Sara Kizito, the Proprietor of Nnalongo Estates Company has vowed to go to court to defend the remaining 2.7 acres in dispute because the land was given to them by the President and they have an MOU-Memorandum of Understanding with KCCA.
Kizito says they decided to hand over 2 acres mainly which is enough for the infrastructural development as requested for by the Uganda National Road’s Authority -UNRA to avoid delaying development.
She however says UNRA wants to use the remaining land to construct walkways and warehouses which she doesn’t agree with.
The road construction will affect about nine businesses at Centenary Park who rented space from the Estates Company.
The Deputy KCCA Executive Director, Dorothy Kisaka much as they have reached an amicable understanding of space for the flyover project, conversations are still ongoing for the rest of the public space.
According to UNRA, constructions at the site shall start immediately after the first phase of the works that takes 32 months from July 2019 is completed at Clock Tower.
