Mayor
attacks planner over illegal building plans.
By
Francis Tusiime19/1/2013
Fort
Portal
The mayor Fort Portal Municipality Edison Asaaba Ruyonga
has come out attacking the municipal physical planner for allegedly approving
the building plans for residents in road reserves.
He explains that the municipality is to kickstart the
grading and widening of the roads using the money under the Uganda support to
municipal infrastructure development USMID project that will lead several
buildings in road reserves demolished.
Adressing the leaders and residents of Bukwali in East
Division Fort Portal Municipality at the launching of the construction of
Bukwali-Kitumba road,Mayor Ruyonga shocked the people when he revealed that
many buildings will be demolished during the grading and widening of the road
because they were build in road reservs.
He accused the physical planner Maddam Olivia Bahwayo
for having offered approved building plans to people to build in the road
reserves. The mayor explains that it requires 17 meters wide for ones building
to survive the demolition during running and widening of the roads.
He however said that the people whose building will be
demolished will not be compensated by the government despite being in position
of the approved plans because they were in wrong to erect buildings in road
reserves.
The mayor who said that the project will leave many
residents shading tears and in huge loses strongly wars technocrats against offering services with the aim of
being impressed but in the long run it affects service delivery and development
of the municipality.
The physical planner couldn’t be reached for her comment
as to why she is doing such a mess while she was aware of the law.
But Habert Mugisa the South Division chairperson said
the divisions can’t accept to lose the funding because of illegally planed
structures, he however revealed that the authorities have embarked on the
sensitization mission to enable the loans get prepared for such developments.
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