Outgoing KCCA Councilors fail to resolve on 2018 Market ordinance

By Olivia Nabaggala

31^st March 2021

Kampala Capital City Authority (KCCA) councilors have failed to resolve on the market ordinance 2018 that was passed to streamline the management of public markets in the city.

The law requires any ordinance to be effected, it has to be sent to the attorney general for review so that clauses don’t clash with other existing laws, and in his response the attorney general guided that the current existing market Act only recognized public markets.

However the deputy lord mayor Doreen Nyanjura noted that the attorney general should recognize the existence of private markets since they are in the city or work towards a private public partnership or sign contracts with private markets since they are operating within KCCA areas.

However the acting director legal affairs Kcca Bob Kwanza noted that once the private public partnerships is adopted it will call for another legal framework that takes a lot of time to be enacted.

Now councilors led by the deputy speakers Abubaker kawalya directed that the draft of the market ordinance be sent back to the KCCA councilors specifically the  legal and gender committee  for further scrutiny and be brought back to the council within one week.