Why Entebbe Taxi Park Has Turned Into A Fighting Den!
Government Minister Rapheal Magyezi is bitter with the local authorities and profiling the mess that rocked the Kitooro taxi park in Entebbe.
The minister two weeks ago released a list of officials to be probed and investigated over the mis-allocation of stalls and lock ups at the Kitooro taxi park.
The list includes the traders’ chairman Wandera Mangeni Lovie and several government officials including councillors.
The report was released by the local government minister a couple of weeks ago after his surprise tour around the Kitooro market square and Kitooro taxi park.
The minister pointed fingers at lots of government officials and politicians that acquired lock ups and stalls wrongly at Kitooro Taxi Park.
Highly placed sources have revealed that several government officials acquired lock ups and stalls in a bonanza that has sparked uproar of disgruntled traders to make noise to the minister’s desk.
The memorandum of traders with Entebbe Municipal Council is very clear but the taxi park officials connived and shared lock ups & stalls at every corner the Kitooro taxi park, says report.
The minister gave an ultimatum for all illegal structures to be removed from the government taxi park and the orders were given the local authorities to handle but they have put a deaf ear and defied the minister’s order.
Reports have indicated that the trader’s representatives tempered with the trader’s register and included their own families and friends.
Let the government officials carry their own cross and let’s get humbled in our hearts during this trial moment, said Minister.
The minister has a shocking list of government officials and politicians plus army officials who acquired lock ups and stalls after dishing out lots of monies.
“Let leaders stop fighting for peasants properties” remarked Scholastica Najjemba, the Entebbe Division A Chairperson.
Meanwhile, the Equal Opportunities Service Commission has released of officials to be probed following a report to minister Magyezi.
After a long wait of eight years under re-construction, the taxi park was officially opened in January 2025, by the Entebbe Municipality Mayor Fabrice Rulinda.
However, months later, it is still dogged with controversy arising from how the shops were allocated and the exorbitant rental charges for the shops. Yes, “the state-of-the-art taxi park features 249 shops” as well.
This seems among issues on which NUP has dropped the ball, as far as the concerns of the people of Entebbe Municipality go.
