By Sadique Bamwita
The Deputy Executive Director Kampala Capital City Authority ( KCCA), Benon Moses Kigenyi has lectured Headteachers from both private and government schools on how best they can disseminate the City’s Five -year Strategic Plan, Client charter and the required service delivery standards.
He told teachers that the authority decided to engage them because it was necessary to let them know how the authority has performed in the past five years and what the authority plans to do in the coming five years.
Deputy ED Kigenyi noted that it is very important for teachers to master the service delivery standards because the City’s dream is to deliver quality services including quality education.
” We can’t afford to have the education sector where there is rising private education and falling government education. This is because children in both government and private sector belong to government. Therefore , we need a common ground, ” Kigenyi emphasized.
He went on ‘As KCCA we are proud of our teachers because they have done a good job. For the last competitions , Kampala has shone in sporting activities like music,dance and drama, swimming competition, table tennis among activities. I thank teachers for nurturing talents in schools, ” Kigenyi extended his appreciation to teachers.
Kigenyi admitted having old infrastructures in public schools adding that he is optimistic once the authority gets enough funds they will be fixed.
“We ask you to be out guarantors and in case school land is in trouble speak out as responsible citizens. We intend to build a digital computer lab which shall be accessible to all our learners, ” Kigenyi revealed.
Meanwhile, the president secondary schools in Uganda as well as the Headteacher Nabisunsa Girls secondary school, Hajat Zulaika Nabukeera Kabuye, thanked government for earmarking some funds to renovate all traditional schools across the country.
“We are grateful with the government of Uganda for it’s support towards all schools . Government has set up ICT centers across the country. And there is ongoing training for both government and private teachers, ” Hajat Nabukeera commended government.
The Chairperson of secondary schools in Kampala, Edward Kanoonya, appreciated the authority’s good leadership and pledged to ensure increased access to education in both UPE and USE schools.
He also revealed that government has been able to remove asbestos in most Kampala schools citing Kyambogo college, and Old Kampala secondary school among others .
Kanoonya asked government to revise the capitation grant allocated to government schools saying it’s not enough because of inflation.
He also asked government to enroll all teachers in government schools on payroll on top of providing accommodation for all teachers.
Kanoonya tasked government to expand school infrastructures citing Luzira secondary school which has a few structures yet it has big numbers of learners.
The Senior Presidential Advisor -Moses Byaruhanga revealed that every year government allocates Shs2.2billion to renovate government schools.
He however, said he is not pleased with performance of government schools in the national exams yet they are expected to perform better than private schools . On this note, he said is going to investigate the poor performance in government schools.
Byaruhanga said government allowed schools to charge some fees but it has come to his attention it’s being abused.
In his conclusion , he called upon teachers to vote candidate Yoweri Museveni come January 15, 2026.
