A photo collage of city businessman Ham Kiggundu, and an artistic impression of a redeveloped Nakivubo channel. Mr. Kiggundu has come under immense pressure for redeveloping the drainage channel without the blessing of local authorities, even after a greenlight from President Museveni.

A group of Ugandan lawyers and civic activists have taken to the High Court to challenge what they describe as a dangerous, unconstitutional, and illegal encroachment on Kampala’s lifeline drainage system—the Nakivubo Channel. At the center of the dispute is businessman Hamis Kiggundu, aka Ham, whose company Ham Enterprises, is conducting construction works on the protected channel.  The Kampala Capital City Authority (KCCA) and the National Environment Management Authority (NEMA) are accused of failing in their oversight roles, while the Attorney General has been sued as government’s chief legal representative.  The plaintiffs, Naffi Kazinda and Samuel Oola, represented by F….

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Paul Murungi is a Ugandan Business Journalist with extensive financial journalism training from institutions in South Africa, London (UK), Ghana, Tanzania, and Uganda. His coverage focuses on groundbreaking stories across the East African region with a focus on ICT, Energy, Oil and Gas, Mining, Companies, Capital and Financial markets, and the General Economy.

His body of work has contributed to policy change in private and public companies.

Paul has so far won five continental awards at the Sanlam Group Awards for Excellence in Financial Journalism in Johannesburg, South Africa, and several Uganda national journalism awards for his articles on business and technology at the ACME Awards.

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