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Street Lighting Project on Track-Musisi

21 Dec 2016, 17:26 4216 Views Kampala, Uganda Business and finance East Africa Updates

In short
Jennifer Musisi, the KCCA Executive Director, says they have identified two companies to undertake the project at between Shillings 9.5 billion and 10 billion.

Kampala Capital City Authority-KCCA is in the process of installing 1000 street lights in the city. 



The streets lights are to be installed along Bombo Road, Kampala Road, Nile Avenue, Entebbe Road, Katwe-Kibuye and Kintu road among others.

 
This comes a few months after the Authority terminated its contract with Philips East Africa to supply and install 750 solar lights in Kampala at the tune of 7 billion for fraudulent behavior and poor project management.
 
 
Jennifer Musisi, the KCCA Executive Director, says they have identified two companies to undertake the project at between Shillings 9.5 billion and 10 billion.
 

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According to Musisi, the installation of street lights will improve security and safety of city dwellers. She also disclosed that KCCA workers will repair the existing but nonfunctional street lights to ensure they are operational.

 
Currently, a number of streets in Kampala are covered by darkness due to the absence of street lights.
 

 

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Alex Otto
“Journalism that changes lives is my goal,” Alex Otto has said on more than one occasion. That is his career’s guiding principle. Has been since he was a radio journalist in the northern Ugandan town of Gulu in 2009.

Otto passionately believes his journalism should bring to the fore the voices of the voiceless like the shooting victims of Apaa. Otto tries in his journalism to ask tough questions to those in positions of authority.

Based in the Kampala bureau, Otto is especially interested in covering agriculture, politics, education, human rights, crime, environment and business. He has reported intensively on the post-conflict situation in northern Uganda.

A URN staff member since 2014, Otto previously worked with The Observer Newspaper from 2012 to 2013 and later the Institute for War and Peace Reporting IWPR based in Gulu.

He was the URN Gulu bureau chief 2014-2016.