James Eriku
23 October 2008
Authorities in Gulu have issued a three-month ultimatum to building owners in the municipality to style up their building plans or risk losing their licences.
Gulu Municipality is one of the several municipalities in the country striving to achieve a city status in the next few years.
The LC5 chairman, Mr Norbert Mao said during his weekly radio talkshow on Mega FM on Saturday that he had informed all new developers and property owners to follow approved building plans or risk losing their licences.
"We want all building owners in the municipality to start changing the looks of their buildings by painting them as soon as possible," Mr Mao said.
Mr Mao said, under the new arrangement, they would also start issuing three months-licences to all business premises to force them to abide by the new regulations, and revoke them in case of non-compliance.
He revealed that the district would soon receive some Austrian city planners to help jointly plan the area with indigenous town planners to have a concrete and viable city plan for Gulu. "When the Austrian city planners come here we shall call for ideas from residents so that they not only help us with their plan but we also own it," he said.
Gulu Municipality, with a population of 140,000, is one of the most-highly populated urban centres in the country. Mr Mao, however, expressed worry over the continued poor disposal of garbage by residents. This, he said, was leading to the spread of diseases like Cholera.
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