President Yoweri Museveni has ordered National Medical Stores (NMS) to vacate the Kajjansi wetland within the next ten years.
During his remarks, Museveni noted that while the facility was magnificent citing increase in the agency’s storage capacity four times from the current one at Entebbe, it was built in a wetland
“You have built in a bad place…Kamabare told me a long story that this was a quarry of clay by Kajjansi Tile Makers. But that is proof that this was a swamp…but you don’t have to worry. We have told people who have built structures like these and factories…we have given them ten years to migrate out of the wetlands at their own cost.”
He also asked Kamabare about how much it could have cost to reclaim the ten acres where the facility sits, adding that it must have taken several truckloads of soil and rock to fill up and drain the swamp to lay the complex foundation.
However Kamabare noted that all activities carried out were within the Shs 69.8 billion that was provided for the project.
The facility was constructed by China National Complete Plant Import and Export Corporation Ltd and Wada, a Ugandan subcontractor with funds provided by the government which contributed Shs 41 billion while the rest came from the Global Fund and Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization (GAVI).
