Ndugu Mayor @bulamu250 . The National Water and Sewerage Cooperation surprised us! Ndugu Silver Mugisha (@NWSCMD) will perhaps see this and provide an explainer — perhaps a never again explanation.
A road in Kira is sealed (full tarmac) and within weeks or so NWSC opens it again to fix upgraded pipes. The intention is sound — water must reach households — but where is the planning? No shared programme with the municipality?; no ducts laid before final surfacing! no published reinstatement standard! and no answer on who pays for the carriageway just destroyed!
Traffic is diverted onto narrow shoulders, time and expensive fuel is idling, businesses lose access, and the public pays twice: once for the road, again for the repair!
This is a sequencing failure. Why not adopt an integrated dig-once rule: utilities and fibre installed, inspected and as-built before surfacing, with a reinstatement bond that covers full structural repair, charged to the utility.
The same lapse shows on livestock. Jennifer Musisi’s KCCA kept cattle off Kampala’s carriageways. Who are the Bakyinjagi moving cows through Kira’s streets, and why is that still tolerated?
Integrated planning is cheaper than repeated excavation and daily disruption.