All You Need to Know as Museveni Government Unveils Foreign Investor for Kiteezi Garbage Project

Uganda’s government has unveiled a foreign investor for Kiteezi garbage project as it moves to transform waste at the Kiteezi landfill and to decommission the dumping site.

Established in 1996, the Kiteezi landfill has been operational for 28 years. But on August 10, a Kiteezi landfill accident claimed up to 35 people and destroyed over 170 homes.

The central garbage collection centre for Kampala, Ugandan capital city, the Kiteezi landfill currently gets between 1,500 and 2,000 tonnes of solid waste added to it every day.

In the wake of tragedy that befell residents of Kiteezi, Museveni’s government sought ways of recycling the available waste and a sustainable mechanism of managing waste in the city.

Now, government has unveiled a foreign investor for Kiteezi garbage project: Jospong Group of Companies, which is based in the West African nation of Ghana.

State minister for Kampala and Metropolitan Affairs Kabuye Kyofatogabye handed over the landfill to Jospong Group of Companies on October 08, 2024.

Joseph S Agyepong, the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Jospong Group of Companies, was at the Kiteezi landfill with Minister Kyofatogabye.

It is important to note that the foreign investor for Kiteezi garbage project would not immediately start on the work of recycling the waste. In fact, CEO Joseph S Agyepong said works transform the site would begin in March 2025.

But the Jospong Group of Companies boss confirmed that a technical team would arrive in Uganda this week to survey the landfill.

Minister Kyofatogabye praised the foreign investor for Kiteezi garbage project as being experienced to handle waste issues.

He said: “Jospong has 25 years of experience in waste management and in Ghana, they solved a similar problem of waste management and have provided us with a very easy and affordable solution to implement and this is how the government came to partner with them.”

However, Agyepong noted that Jospong Group of Companies was yet to come up with a figure that would constitute the investment capital.  

Claiming to be passionate about recycling, he noted that a study would help them understand how much money they need for the project.

“We have not placed any cost. We are going to first do a complete study and then discuss with the authorities,” he noted.

It should be remembered that President Museveni fired Kampala Capital City Authority (KCCA) bosses following the Kiteezi landfill disaster, and gave the Public Service Commission an ultimatum within which to hire a new KCCA ED. (See Details Here and There).

You can read interesting facts about the acting KCCA ED Frank Rusa Here.

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