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EDITORIAL: Banks Are Our Last Line of Defence – Will They Stop Financing Uganda’s Environmental Collapse?

Editorial, CEO East AfricaBanking & Financial Services The Big StoryNovember 13, 2025November 17, 2025

When Uganda’s capital city floods, it is often framed as a natural disaster. The skies open up in fury, the drains overflow, and Kampala drowns under its own chaos. But the truth, stark and uncomfortable, is that our floods are man-made. They are not the wrath of the heavens; they are the consequence of greed, negligence, and broken governance. And at the centre of it all stand institutions we once believed were different, Uganda’s banks. As political will falters and environmental enforcement collapses under the weight of corruption and patronage, banks have become crucial. They are the last institutions still…

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Engineers Board Tasks KCCA Boss to Reveal Engineers, Companies Behind Nakivubo Channel Redevelopment

Paul MurungiPolitics & Goverment The Big StoryNovember 3, 2025November 7, 2025

A subtle but consequential confrontation is unfolding between the Engineers Registration Board (ERB) and the Kampala Capital City Authority (KCCA) over the ongoing redevelopment of the Nakivubo Channel, one of the city’s most critical urban drainage arteries. The project, backed by businessman Hamis Kiggundu, commonly known as Ham, has come under sharp scrutiny from the professional engineering regulator amid questions of transparency, technical compliance, and public safety. In a formal letter dated October 6, 2025, addressed to KCCA Executive Director Sharifah Buzeki, the Engineers Board demanded full disclosure of the engineers and firms behind the multi-billion-shilling channel works. The correspondence,…

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Storm over Nakivubo: Ham, KCCA, NEMA Dragged to Court over Drainage Channel Encroachment

Paul MurungiLegal & Justice The Big StorySeptember 24, 2025September 24, 2025

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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