Uganda Cities, Municipalities and Towns should be a place worthy to call home.

Uganda's capital city of Kampala is also by far the largest town in the country. The city is both the capital of Uganda and the backbone to the country’s economy. Despite the city dynamic and engaging activities, the growth and development is at snail’s pace and employment opportunities in the city are dwindling, so are the living conditions. Kampala has a population of around 1,659,600 as of the mid-year count taken in 2011.


Apart from Kampala there are other Cities in Uganda such as Mbarara , Jinja, Mukono, Masaka, Lira, Hoima, Fort Portal and Gulu. In contrast to such other major cities in Africa as Nairobi and Lagos, Ugandan cities are not sprawled or overpopulated. The rate of crime is low, and the cities are way safer. The towns have a fast growing economy and are expected to grow into commercial hubs and fringes to "de-localize" and decentralize the already overcrowding Kampala.

 

There is a common idea Ugandans that a CITY is merely a transit point for making money and that will all eventually relocate to some idyllic country house is a fallacy. We need to make our Cities/Towns livable. Children need play areas, residential areas need to be quiet and schools close enough.


Yes, you could be working from the City but life is still happening as you're working for the 25 years your still there. That's your home. This whole principle of chasing the bag at any expense has made it even seditious for residents to complain about establishments that are a nuisance.

You can't in good faith lament about the club that wakes your kid at 3 am because apparently some waitresses, djs, pimps, prostitutes and bouncers need to make money. Are we in City to make money or live a decent life? In actual sense, we're here for both.

It's okay if they be jobless after the club is shut down. We need to build a well organized country that grows with a semblance of order. A factory shouldn't be in a residential area, agricultural land shouldn't be subdivided below certain parcels.

When we have a bold enough government we need to conceptualize a mass transport system for Cities and Municipalities, this may make Taxi drivers, conductors and Boda Boda drivers jobless but we sorely need affordable, efficient public transportation.

We need passable walkways in the CBD, if it means kicking hawkers out who obstruct foot traffic then we've got to do it. Making money can't be the only North star to decide whether a policy is good or bad. You shouldn't thrive at the greater expense of others.
  
"You cannot carry out fundamental change without a certain amount of madness. In this case, it comes from nonconformity, the courage to turn your back on the old formulas, the courage to invent the future. It took the madmen of yesterday for us to be able to act with extreme clarity today. I want to be one of those madmen. We must dare to invent the future." THOMAS SANKARA.

 

 


 

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