The National Unity Platform (NUP) party is investigating its councillors over the recent chaos that erupted at Kampala Capital City Authority (KCCA) City Hall during a meeting over waste management.
“We are trying to get to the bottom of it so that we can issue a statement about it. So, it is a matter we are studying to understand the cause of the problem,” the NUP secretary general, David Lewis Rubongoya, said on Thursday.
The KCCA council, which has 54 members from the five divisions of Kampala, is dominated by the NUP, which has more than 40 members.
Chaos ensued on Tuesday after a section of NUP councillors accused the KCCA’s City Executive Committee (CEC) of failing to table a report on waste management in Kampala.
However, the Kampala Lord Mayor, Erias Lukwago, who belongs to the Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) party with only three KCCA councillors, denied the allegations the following day.
He argued during a press conference that the incident happened when the members of CEC were set to present a report on the collapse of the Kiteezi landfill in Wakiso district and its aftermath.
The collapse of the 36-acre landfill, which is the only landfill serving the whole of Kampala, killed over 35 people in August 2024.
“Unfortunately, the theatrics that characterised the council thwarted that process. It is very much regrettable, and it is a matter of great concern to us,” Lukwago, who is serving his third term, said.
