The Filth that surrounds Kampala City
For a city tagged with possibly the worst basic social infrastructures (forgive me if beyond our borders i have not traveled that far), Kampala for one minute may seemingly look like a developing slum stuck in between a suburb.
As dusty, noisy and crowded as never before, the city seems not to have any form of leadership at all. The corrupted leaders will have their say on this but their failure to manage the mushrooming structures built in the middle of roads tells us an unusual story of how poor governance of public amenities has been embraced by Ugandans.
As sewerage overflows from all corners of the city, garbage littered at different hideouts within town, waters flowing from bust pipes due to daily dig outs, organizations vested with the authority to deal with such unfriendly situations have completely failed to give basic guidelines of urban planning.
This day as it gets rainy, it comes to understanding that all water channels have been blocked, septic tanks broken and garbage dumped indiscriminately by both the city dwellers and the 'responsible' organizations.
Poor management of the environment in this city is not criminal at all as acts like night road side garbage dumping in even the effluent places where the educated live is very frequent, the uncultured spitting by people who look 'sane', throwing rubbish through car windows have all become normal acts in this city.
To be educated sometimes condemns us to uncultured acts that reflect why in the first place some people should not have gone to any institute of learning. 'Fake' city planners and engineers who have successfully led to the deliverables of collapsing buildings that have led to the death of several 'survivors' still man the maintenance and planning of the city. The rotten City Council is BUT a corrupt institution compounded with bouncers and thugs who instead of monitoring city activities spend time bullying and pocketing items from road side business men.
Wrecked with fake everything, the city is a total representation of a failed social infrastructural system with a failed leadership.
The filthy state of this city surely summarizes the inward thinking of who we are. The 'i don't care attitude ' is prevalent as the 'corporate companies' continuously dig up roads and put up buildings under unexplainable circumstances for unjustifiable economic reasons.
Should anyone resign over this? I would say yes and no.. we don't have a critical mass to build on this and do what was in Animal Farm.
For a city tagged with possibly the worst basic social infrastructures (forgive me if beyond our borders i have not traveled that far), Kampala for one minute may seemingly look like a developing slum stuck in between a suburb.
As dusty, noisy and crowded as never before, the city seems not to have any form of leadership at all. The corrupted leaders will have their say on this but their failure to manage the mushrooming structures built in the middle of roads tells us an unusual story of how poor governance of public amenities has been embraced by Ugandans.
As sewerage overflows from all corners of the city, garbage littered at different hideouts within town, waters flowing from bust pipes due to daily dig outs, organizations vested with the authority to deal with such unfriendly situations have completely failed to give basic guidelines of urban planning.
This day as it gets rainy, it comes to understanding that all water channels have been blocked, septic tanks broken and garbage dumped indiscriminately by both the city dwellers and the 'responsible' organizations.
Poor management of the environment in this city is not criminal at all as acts like night road side garbage dumping in even the effluent places where the educated live is very frequent, the uncultured spitting by people who look 'sane', throwing rubbish through car windows have all become normal acts in this city.
To be educated sometimes condemns us to uncultured acts that reflect why in the first place some people should not have gone to any institute of learning. 'Fake' city planners and engineers who have successfully led to the deliverables of collapsing buildings that have led to the death of several 'survivors' still man the maintenance and planning of the city. The rotten City Council is BUT a corrupt institution compounded with bouncers and thugs who instead of monitoring city activities spend time bullying and pocketing items from road side business men.
Wrecked with fake everything, the city is a total representation of a failed social infrastructural system with a failed leadership.
The filthy state of this city surely summarizes the inward thinking of who we are. The 'i don't care attitude ' is prevalent as the 'corporate companies' continuously dig up roads and put up buildings under unexplainable circumstances for unjustifiable economic reasons.
Should anyone resign over this? I would say yes and no.. we don't have a critical mass to build on this and do what was in Animal Farm.
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