KCCA receives funding offer for COVID-19 remembrance parade

Kampala Capital City Authority (KCCAUG) has received a funding offer from Canadian partners to hold a COVID-19 remembrance parade.

According to KCCA’s Executive Director, Ms Dorothy Kisaka, the idea of the COVID-19 remembrance is an initiative by the Minister for KCCA and Metropolitan Affairs to celebrate Uganda’s resilience and commemorate Frontline workers and Ugandans who lost their lives and livelihoods during the pandemic.

The KCCA management which included the Deputy Executive Director, David Luyimbazi, was meeting Parliament’s Presidential Affairs Committee.

“This is more of a remembrance campaign, many people died, many businesses closed we can’t wash them away. Many countries are remembering this Covid-19 event as part of appreciating the sacrifices people made, the doctors, so this is partly tourism, partly remembrance. So this was an idea that was borrowed from Canada, where they are embracing it, so we thought Kampala would borrow it as well,” explained Luyimbazi.

According to the Ministry of Health website, statistics indicate that Uganda recorded 170,255 confirmed of COVID-19 and 3,632 people lost their lives to the pandemic.

KCCA will also spend on other tourism development activities like; holding a Kampala Tourism Expo, development of Kampala tourism brand and identity, digitizing Kampala tourism information centre and development, and maintaining 10 tourism sites around the city.

KCCA is also seeking for Sh2.24b to hire additional 150 law enforcement staff team to support the law enforcement function, wants another Sh6.32b for payment of wages of the leaders in the various markets around the City.

Additionally, KCCA is seeking Sh4.5b to procure garbage trucks, although no single penny has been allocated to this item according to the 2024/25 national budget.