Nakawa/Naguru contractor ready for work
Monday, 18th April, 2011
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By Darious Magara

THE Comer Homes Group Company, the contractor for the proposed Nakawa/Naguru modern estates, is ready to start work once the Government hands over the site, a top official said last week.

Mohammed Mulindwa, the Opec Prime Properties chief operations officer, noted that the construction works had been delayed by the Government failure to hand over the two sites.

The Government in 2007 signed a $300m deal with Opec Prime Properties of the UK to turn the two dilapidated estates into satellite cities under a public-private partnership.

The developer is expected to build 1,747 flats to resettle the sitting tenants. Mulindwa said they were ready to implement the project, which will be the first of its kind in the region.

He said they will initially construct 3,500 housing units.

“These units are still a drop in the ocean for Kampala’s huge housing deficit. Phase one starts with the 1,747 flats for the registered tenants,” Mulindwa said.

He said 60% of the project will be residential and 40% commercial.

The entire project is expected to be complete in 10 years.

Kashaka said the Government would separately build executive apartments, commercial blocks and institutional facilities like schools, clinics, and places of worship.

Museveni tells Nakawa, Naguru tenants to leave

By Risdel Kasasira (email the author)
Posted Friday, May 27 2011 at 00:00
President Museveni has directed the Nakawa and Naguru estate tenants to vacate and pave way for an investor to start construction of 5,000 modern housing units.

Mr Museveni said in the statement issued by State House on Monday that the tenants should leave the condemned estates to allow OPEC Prime Properties take over the premises.
His directive follows the expiry of the two weeks ultimatum by the Local Government ministry to tenants to vacate or face forced eviction.

The two estates in conflict consist of 1,747 dilapidated housing units occupying 29 hectares in Nakawa and 37 hectares in Naguru. The tenants had ignored the ultimatum, asking government to first identify an alternative place to resettle.

During the opening of new offices of the Chieftaincy of Military Intelligence in Mbuya, Mr Museveni said government is committed to assisting the private sector to spur economic growth and development.

Kampala businessman Sudhir Ruparelia paid Shs90b for the construction of the facility in exchange for the land that has been housing CMI offices at Kitante.

Nakawa, Naguru tenants given final eviction notice
Monday, 27th June, 2011
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By Darious Magara

TENANTS of the Nakawa and Naguru housing estates in Kampala must leave the premises by June30, to allow the redevelopment of the area into a modern satellite town.

According to a public notice issued on June 23, by the permanent secretary of the ministry of local government, John Kashaka Muhanguzi, said the site should be handed over to the developer in accordance to the Public Private Partnership (PPP) agreement.

“Pursuant to this PPP, the Government has finalised arrangements to commission the contractors to start fencing the two estates” Muhanguzi said.

“In this regard, reference is made to our earlier notices and the last one issued on December 17, 2010 notifying the tenants and the public to vacate the estates before the fencing starts,” he added.

Muhanguzi said the fencing is scheduled to commence on June 30.

A ministry official said: “Some tenants have panicked and called me when they received the notice from the permanent secretary, I have advised them to comply and move before they are evicted.”

The notice also stated that the Government of Uganda signed an agreement with Comer Homes Group Company of the United Kingdom to re-develop Nakawa and Naguru housing estates.

Comer Homes is estimated to have assets worth sh2,800b.

The project manager, Eng. Andrew Kiizza, said over 80 of the tenants had collected their memorandums of understanding signed with the Government and advised the reaming ones to pick theirs.

The memorandum would give their holders first priority to purchase the re-developed flats at a subsidised price but some have sold them.

The estates, which occupy 66 hectares, have 1,750 dilapidated housing units, which have been condemned by Kampala City Council.

About 1000 families are believed to be living in the estate which was established by the colonial administration for low-income earners in the 1950s.

When complete, the estate will have 1,747 flats and related amenities for low-income earners.

Modern residential, commercial, institutional and hospitality units are to be built for the next 10 years and are projected to create 30,000 jobs.

Nakawa tenants to be evicted today
By Andrew Bagala (email the author)
Posted Monday, July 4 2011 at 00:00
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The government will start evicting Nakawa and Naguru housing estates tenants today to pave way for the redevelopment of the area into a modern satellite town.

Police yesterday started deploying officers there to aid the eviction of the tenants. Nakawa Resident Commissioner Monday Kintu yesterday said they have been left with no options but to evict the tenants because they have given them enough time to leave but they have refused.

Tenants
Around 1,760 tenants sitting on a 66-hectare piece of land are going to be affected. The houses were constructed in 1950s to accommodate government workers but they have since decayed.

The tenants have on several occasions fruitlessly attempted to block the redevelopment, asking for compensation before leaving the estates. They say they are not leaving because the government has no court order to evict them.

Mr Kintu, however, said the evicted tenants will be considered after phase I of the contraction has been completed. “They will own the housing units after two years through a mortgage scheme in housing finance and pay for them in 20 years,” he said.

Kampala Metropolitan Police spokesman Ibin Ssenkumbi said their work will be to witness peaceful eviction and that the construction commences without any hindrances.

Government signed an agreement with Comer Homes Group Company of the UK to redevelop the estates. According to government when the project is complete, it will have 1,747 flats and related benefits for low-income earners.




Demolition of Naguru, Nakawa estates starts
Monday, 4th July, 2011
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By Pascal Kwesiga and Andrew Senyonga


Panic grips Naguru, Nakawa Housing estates tenants as Local Government Ministry officials on Monday morning moved in to fence off and pull down the dilapidated houses.

Although tenants had been given several eviction orders and deadlines, they had snubbed them.

Kampala Police Chief Grace Turyagumanawe is commanding Police officers deployed to oversee the exercise.

Some tenants have been seen parking their belongings, loading them onto vehicles and boda bodas (motor bikes) in response to Local Government Ministry’s eviction order.

Some, however, insist that they will not vacate saying there are some unresolved issues.

The eviction exercise is so far peaceful.

Plans are underway to re-develop the area into a modern satellite town. Opec Prime Properties, a subsidiary of the British-based Comer Homes Group, was contracted to do the job.

The estates were supposed to be fenced off on June 30, but there were neither iron sheets to fence off the area, nor graders at the scene.

A notice dated July 23, 2011 and signed by John Kashaka Muhanguzi, the permanent secretary of the Ministry of Local Government, asked the tenants to vacate the premises so that the developer could commence construction.



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Evictions of Nakawa and Naguru housing estates tenants have started this Monday morning to pave way for the redevelopment of the area into a modern satellite town. The evictions are being conducted by KCCA officials.

Police yesterday started deploying officers there to aid the eviction of the tenants. Nakawa Resident Commissioner Monday Kintu yesterday said they have been left with no options but to evict the tenants because they have given them enough time to leave but they have refused.

Tenants
Around 1,760 tenants sitting on a 66-hectare piece of land are going to be affected. The houses were constructed in 1950s to accommodate government workers but they have since decayed.


The tenants have on several occasions fruitlessly attempted to block the redevelopment, asking for compensation before leaving the estates. They say they are not leaving because the government has no court order to evict them.

Mr Kintu, however, said the evicted tenants will be considered after phase I of the contraction has been completed. “They will own the housing units after two years through a mortgage scheme in housing finance and pay for them in 20 years,” he said.

Kampala Metropolitan Police spokesman Ibin Ssenkumbi said their work will be to witness peaceful eviction and that the construction commences without any hindrances.

Government signed an agreement with Comer Homes Group Company of the UK to redevelop the estates. According to government when the project is complete, it will have 1,747 flats and related benefits for low-income earners.

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Behind every house facing in the Naguru Nakawa Estates are individual memories of a place the residents of Nakawa and Naguru have called home for decades. For many residents their whole lifetimes have been spent in the properties which today faced the bulldozers.



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Houses in the Naguru Estate were sent crashing to the ground as former occupants watched on helplessly still clutching their property. There is tight security in the area as developers begin construction of a modern satellite city. The redevelopment of the estates has had many false starts since being initiated by KCC in 1997. The Government took over the project in 2005 following a row between the council and tenants over who held the rights to the properties.

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The demolition exercise of approximately 1750 houses in Nakawa and Naguru Estates has continued into a second day. Surprisingly many residents spent last night outside their partially demolished houses, still unclear what lies next and where they will be living next. Opposition legislators have rallied behind the tenants and sought an explanation from government

Govt to handover Naguru estate
Tuesday, 16th August, 2011
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By Darious Magara

THE government will hand over the Naguru/ Nakawa housing estate site to the developer at the end of August so that the redevelopment of the area into a modern satellite town commences.

The project manager Eng. Andrew Kizza said that the government signed an agreement with M/S OPECPRIME properties limited a Comer homes Group Company of the United Kingdom to redevelop the estates.

“We are in the final stages of procuring land tittles for the two sites and by the end of this month we shall handover the site to Comer. We are progressing and the tenants should stay calm” he added.

Eng. Kizza who also works with the ministry of local government said genuine tenants shall each be sold a flat on the completion of the redevelopment of the area into a modern satellite town.

“Nobody should worry about the Naguru and Nakawa housing estates project because we are on course. We have observed transparency and ask for the cooperation of all stakeholders” he added.

Kizza said the fencing off of the estates after the eviction exercise done about two months ago had been completed and were now working towards handing over the site to the developer.

“We have finished fencing off the two estates and now we want to hand over the site to the developer. We ask for patience and cooperation of all stakeholders especially the tenants”

Comer Homes which is estimated to have assets worth more than £1b (sh2, 800b) is ready to soon undertake the redevelopment of the area into a modern satellite town.

Its chief operations officer Mohammed Mulindwa said yesterday that they were 100% ready to start developments upon possession of the site.

“We have been waiting for the last four years and we are 100% ready to redevelop the area. We want also to employ members of the tenants’ family depending on their skills” Mulindwa added.

The land at the two estates occupied 66 hectares and had 1,750 dilapidated housing units which were razed after the eviction. The units

The housing units at the estates had been condemned by Kampala City Council. The two Estates were established by the colonial administration for low-income earners in the 1950s.

When completed, the estate will have 1,747 flats and related amenities for low-income earners and modern residential and commercial, institutional and hospitality structures.

Mulindwa said that the developments will be made in the next 10 years and the project, first of its kind is projected to create 30,000 jobs.

The permanent secretary John Kashaka said the ministry and other stakeholders will oversee the development of the project.

“The project is to be developed under the Public Private Partnership (PPP) agreement. We shall work closely with the developer to ensure that our people benefit from the project” he added.

The government issued genuine tenants with Memorandums of Understanding (MOUs) which gives them first chance of purchase of the redeveloped residential flats but at a subsidy.

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Residents of Nakawa Estate laundering before demolition of the houses in July. The developer has been shown green light to start work.

By EPHRAIM KASOZI (email the author)
Posted Friday, November 25 2011 at 00:00
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Work to start. The developers from the UK have met local government ministry officials and are set to meet President Museveni.

Arrangements for construction of the Nakawa-Naguru estates have been finalised, four years after the signing of the partnership agreement between government and the developer.



The developer has also received the project site and titles, a move seen to pave way for the construction.
The handover was prompted by the arrival of the United Kingdom based billionaire, Luke Comer of Comer Group-UK, who are implementing the project through Opec Prime Properties.
Mr Comer flew into the country on Tuesday.

Government condemned the dilapidated estates in the 1990s and later allocated the land to the UK-based estate developer to turn the estates into a satellite city.

The delay
But redevelopment was stifled by disputes between the government and tenants, who despite several notices asking them to vacate the premises, had refused to move, citing lack of alternative homes.

In July, Police and Kampala Capital City Authority enforced the eviction by dispatching bulldozers to knock down the buildings.

The UK delegation has visited the site where they met various local authorities led by the deputy Resident City Commissioner, Mr Kintu Mande, and others.

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Mr Comer also met Local Government Minister Adolf Mwesige and the Acting Permanent Secretary, Mr Patrick Mutabwire.

The delegation is also slated to meet President Museveni over the same matter.

Mr Comer came a week after the project implementation team interfaced with various government departments and local service providers.

During the meeting with Mr Mwesige, the Comer delegation briefed him and his officials on current progress and the steps involved in delivering the project.

President Museveni, who in 2009, met the Comer group directors in London, ordered that the project should be implemented, after visiting some of the Comer developments in London.

Uganda: Investors Rush for Kampala Satellite City Project

Paul Tentena27 November 2011
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Kampala — Ten contractors have expressed interest in carrying out different activities, as the construction of the long awaited Naguru/Nakawa satellite city started at a slow pace.

According to an official with the developers, Opec Prime Properties Limited, a United Kingdom based real estate developing company, the construction started with site clearance activities as they await for the city development master plan that is expected to be out in six months.

"Initial commencements like site clearing have started. Ten contractors in different activities have so far showed their interest to work on the project," said the official who preferred anonymity.

The contractors include three from United Kingdom and seven from China. No Ugandan contractor has showed interest in the project.

However, when East African Business Week visited the two fenced off sites at Naguru and Nakawa four months after the eviction of over 1700 tenants, there was no visible activity was going on. "We're still looking for more contractors but these contractors should be locally based. It's not an easy project, so we don't need to rush," added the official who preferred anonymity.

The government evicted the over 1700 adamant Nakawa-Naguru estate tenants in July this year as the developers Opec Prime Properties Limited cited a matter of urgency to re-develop the area into a modern satellite city.

The Naguru-Nakawa housing estates were constructed in the 1950's to accommodate low income earning government employees.

The housing estate was later condemned by the government in the 1990's as unfit for human habitation. The search for a new developer started then that led to awarding of the redevelopment contract to Opec Prime Properties.

Opec Prime Properties Ltd is expected to re-develop the 138 acreage land into a modern satellite town at $300m, including the construction of low-cost houses for the resettlement of the 1,745 tenants.

Redevelopment of Nakawa estate
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The Government will on December 10, hand over the land on which Naguru and Nakawa housing estates stood to the contractor for redevelopment into a satellite city.

The acting permanent secretary in the ministry of Local Government, Patrick Mutabwire, said the contractor is expected to make the developments in 10 years.

M/s OPec Prime Properties was contracted by the Government in 2007 to redevelop the estates into a satellite city.

The construction would involve putting up modern public infrastructure, including roads, water supply, sewerage system and electricity.

Mutabwire said the 1,747 apartments of the bonafide tenants are expected to be completed in four years.

“We have not made changes in the agreement and it is a safe agreement that caters for the concerns of the bona fide tenants and those of the Government,” he said.

He declined to divulge details of the project, but said they would be availed to the public during the handover ceremony on December 10.

“I do not have all the details, but they are contained in the master plan of the project. We shall, however, preserve Naguru Infants Primary School,” Mutabwire added.

The school, with over 800 pupils, is privately owned and was established in the 1970s.

He said other public facilities such as the Nakawa division headquarters and St. Peter’s Church, Naguru would also not be affected by the project.

Construction was expected to have started in July this year after the eviction of the tenants from the dilapidated buildings in the two estates.

Mutabwire said the project delayed because the Government wanted to clear a few issues and make sure it got a good deal.

He said they held an inter-ministerial meeting last week during which details of how the project will start and roll out were drawn.

M/S Opec Prime Properties is a partner of Comer Homes Group of the United Kingdom. Comer Homes is estimated to have assets worth over sh4,100b.

According to the agreement, the contractor will build apartments for the bona fide tenants, executive apartments, commercial blocks and institutional facilities such as schools, hospitals and places of worship.

The tenants will buy them at a subsidised price and the other structures will also be for sale.

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Nakawa Municipality mayor Ben Ssenabulya Kalumba views an architectural drawing of the housing project to start in Nakawa and Naguru. This was during the official hand over of the site to the developers in Kampala yesterday.

By EMMANUEL GYEZAHO

Posted Tuesday, December 11 2012 at 02:00
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At last. According to the new contract, the project is to be completed in 10 years.

Government hands over Naguru housing site to developers


Officials in Kampala yesterday struggled for words to describe the much anticipated transformation of the dilapidated Nakawa-Naguru housing estate into a modern satellite city.

This was at a glitzy function where the government officially handed over the site to developers.

For a project that has had a start-stop process since its inception nine years ago, there was little surprise to the excitement that senior government officials exhibited as they received architectural designs for a development touted as one that would forever change the city’s skyline.
Titled, New Kampala, the estate’s redevelopment master plan detailed artistic impressions of what the two estates will look like. A standout is a planned signature building in Nakawa in the form of a shield, which the developers described as one that promises to become “a regional resource and national icon.”

The government renewed its contractual obligations with the UK-based developers, Comer Group, who through local company Opec Prime Properties Ltd , are expected to invest $500million (Shs1.2 trillion) into the project.

The two parties signed an addendum contract yesterday to the 2007 Public Private Partnership (PPP) they ventured into which had since remained unimplemented.

“Today marks the commencement of the implementation stage,” said Comer Group chief executive Luke Comer. “A New Kampala is born today and I ask for cooperation from every stakeholder...”

Background
Fifteen months ago, the government forcibly evicted some 1,750 sitting tenants from the land.

Many understood the government’s swift action would herald immediate implementation of the project but what is left of the 66-hectare Naguru-Nakawa estate today is tall bush-land.

Some 1,747 units will be set up to resettle tenants.

Lands Minister Daudi Migereko admitted that the ruling NRM party stood to enjoy serious political capital if the project succeeded.

“When you succeed, we shall also share part of your credit,” said Mr Migereko. “We may not share in your profits and dividends but credit at the political level as NRM… because of the good policies brought in.”

Kampala Capital City Authority boss Jennifer Musisi said she hoped the project would not stall further than it has and admitted that she was relieved that the authority would no longer be responsible for managing the two dilapidated estates.

“Someone was asking us if we are trying to build a zoo in the form of the site which had over grown,” she said. “It’s been expensive and also a challenge for us to take care of that property.”
Local Government Minister Adolf Mwesige apologised for delays in the project.

“I would like to assure you that all the challenges which... delayed take off of the project implementation have now been cleared,” he said.

Any renders for they city?? I also like the idea of the shield shaped building...

Nakawa - Naguru estates construction to start
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By Darious Magara

The construction works for the Nakawa-Naguru housing estates into two satellite towns starts this May, government officials have said.

The developer, Opecprime Properties, a member of the UK Comer Group, has been tasked by the Government to start by constructing 1,747 flats to resettle the former tenants of the two estates within the first four years of the project. The entire project is to be implemented in 10 years.

Isa Gumonye, an assistant commissioner in charge of urban administration, said the contractor is set to start construction in May but was finalising design details of the project.

Gumonye told New Vision on Tuesday that the contractor and the Government were working on project design details and were harmonising issues with utility providers such as National Water and Sewerage Cooperation, UMEME and Kampala City Council Authority (KCCA) before embarking on the real construction work.

“You just don’t start construction works on such a huge project without harmonising with other actors like National Environment Management Authority,” Gumonye added. He said housing estate had been incorporated in the KCCA vision 2040.

Adolf Mwesige, the local government minister launched the redevelopment project of Nakawa- Naguru estates and handed over the site to the contractor in December but no work has been done so far.

Tenants from the Nakawa-Naguru estates were evicted in July 2011, to pave way for its redevelopment.

The long Awaited Redevelopemnt of Nakawa naguru estate is here. Expected to take 10yrz.

Worth $500 millon dollarz.


Officials in Kampala yesterday struggled for words to describe the much anticipated transformation of the dilapidated Nakawa-Naguru housing estate into a modern satellite city.

This was at a glitzy function where the government officially handed over the site to developers.

For a project that has had a start-stop process since its inception nine years ago, there was little surprise to the excitement that senior government officials exhibited as they received architectural designs for a development touted as one that would forever change the city’s skyline.
Titled, New Kampala, the estate’s redevelopment master plan detailed artistic impressions of what the two estates will look like. A standout is a planned signature building in Nakawa in the form of a shield, which the developers described as one that promises to become “a regional resource and national icon.”

The government renewed its contractual obligations with the UK-based developers, Comer Group, who through local company Opec Prime Properties Ltd , are expected to invest $500million (Shs1.2 trillion) into the project.

The two parties signed an addendum contract yesterday to the 2007 Public Private Partnership (PPP) they ventured into which had since remained unimplemented.

“Today marks the commencement of the implementation stage,” said Comer Group chief executive Luke Comer. “A New Kampala is born today and I ask for cooperation from every stakeholder...”

Background
Fifteen months ago, the government forcibly evicted some 1,750 sitting tenants from the land.

Many understood the government’s swift action would herald immediate implementation of the project but what is left of the 66-hectare Naguru-Nakawa estate today is tall bush-land.

Some 1,747 units will be set up to resettle tenants.

Lands Minister Daudi Migereko admitted that the ruling NRM party stood to enjoy serious political capital if the project succeeded.

“When you succeed, we shall also share part of your credit,” said Mr Migereko. “We may not share in your profits and dividends but credit at the political level as NRM… because of the good policies brought in.”

Kampala Capital City Authority boss Jennifer Musisi said she hoped the project would not stall further than it has and admitted that she was relieved that the authority would no longer be responsible for managing the two dilapidated estates.

“Someone was asking us if we are trying to build a zoo in the form of the site which had over grown,” she said. “It’s been expensive and also a challenge for us to take care of that property.”
Local Government Minister Adolf Mwesige apologised for delays in the project.

“I would like to assure you that all the challenges which... delayed take off of the project implementation have now been cleared,” he said.

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Naguru/Nakawa Masterplan
Client: Comer Homes

Value: undisclosed

Status: Planning Permission

Plus Architecture have been engaged to prepare masterplans for 2 districts on the outskirts of Kampala, Uganda. The city has seen a dramatic rise in population growth over the last 4 decades and this trend is set to continue. The 2 sites, Naguru and Nakawa, are set on steeply sloping terrain to the west of the city centre on either side of the Jinja Highway.
For Nakawa, a central parkland is proposed which acts as a green lung within which civic and religious pavilions are set. This provides a high quality public realm for the commercial and residential neighbourhoods which surround this space. The masterplan also proposes the renewal of a disused rail line to provide an efficient public transport link to Kampala city centre.
Naguru is primarily a residential community and is conceived as a Garden Estate defined by areas of lush landscape creating zones of distinctive character. The steep terrain is exploited to provide a unique and dramatic landscape response.