Kampala businessman, Hamis Kiggundu has heeded to Prime Minister Robina Nabbanja’s directive to open additional culverts to divert large volumes of water into the Nakivubo Channel.
Speaking while inspecting the extend of the damage caused by the Nakivubo Channel flooding, Nabbanja said the current number of culverts is insufficient, and that this was a contributing factor to the extensive flooding that occurred last week in downtown Kampala.
However, Ham has said he welcomes the technical guidance by engineers on what needs to be done best to avert a similar problem in future.
“We shall listen to their technical guidance. We are ready to work with KCCA to ensure water which always collects on the surface whenever it rains enters the channel,” Ham said.
He noted that whereas Nakivubo Channel’s width was six metres, his team has widened it to 12 metres, adding that his engineers projected that the channel will draw water for between 50 and 70 years.
The businessman said whereas the channel was previously open, it posed a danger to members of the public while many, disposed rubbish into it, leading to clogging.
“CAF officials inspected Nakivubo Stadium and said whereas the standard is good, it cant be international when water and sewerage are flowing in an open space near the stadium and asked that it is covered,” he said.
President Museveni recently said those who lost their property during the floods will be assisted, adding that “anybody who made a mistake, we shall correct it.”