HABARI DAILY I Kampala, Uganda I Following the denial of their respective bail applications, the three embattled ex-Kampala Capital City Authority (KCCA) directors are to spend at least 2 weeks at Luzira Maximum Security Prison until they are produced again on November 4.
Dorothy Kisaka, the former KCCA Executive Director, Eng. David Luyiimbazi, her deputy, and Daniel Okello, the former director for public health, will decide their fate in two weeks’ time.
The trio is facing 57 counts of manslaughter and causing grievous harm, appeared before Her Worship Beatrice Kainza, who presided over the fully packed court at Kasangati Chief Magistrates Court in Gayaza, Wakiso district.
Kisaka is being represented by lawyers Apollo Nelson Makubuya and Fred Muwema. Okello is being represented by by Asuman Nyonyintono, while Luyimbazi is represented by Gali Bazilengede.
The trio, who are accused of continuing to operate the Kiteezi landfill despite having been warned of the dangers of its continued operation, pleaded not guilty to all charges read out against them.
Prosecution heard that between July 2020 and August 10, 2024, the trio failed in their duties when they allowed Kiteezi to continue operating without permits.
Dorothy Kisaka, the former KCCA Executive Director
They were also accused of ignoring multiple warnings about the imminent risk of disaster which among others included the slide of garbage that eventually happened.
They are also accused of failure to decommission the landfill that later killed people but also failed to evacuate people who later died and others injured by the slide.
Earlier on detectives and forensics experts conducted throught searches at homes of the three officials who were detained a day before.
While the dismissed KCCA officials were initially detained over criminal negligence charges related to the collapse of the Kiteezi landfill, the presiding judge saw fit to slap multiple charges against them.
Habari Daily will continue to bring you developments in this progressive case.
