200808151988 | Uganda to build new presidential office

Uganda to build new presidential office

The Government with chinese help is to construct an office block for the President and the prime minister, Parliament has been told. Works state minister John Byabagambi said the construction of the twin towers begins on November 1, on Plot 9-11, Sir Apollo Kaggwa Road in Kampala and will be completed in two years, he added.

The office complex will be located near Parliament on the Government-owned land where the Criminal Investigations Department headquarters were.

Mr Byabagambi said the twin towers will have nine floors each and will cost about $20m (sh32b).

China is expected to donate most of the money for the construction of the complex whose outer walls will be covered with granite. He confirmed that the architectural drawings had been submitted to Kampala City Council for approval.

The Uganda Revenue Authority this week secured a loan from the National Social Security Fund to put up its own office block.

The minister also told Parliament that a new bridge, with a dual-carriage, would be built on River Nile at Jinja, with a Japanese loan. “We expect the contractor to be on site by 2010,” he said.