Local council councilors and former residents of Nakawa-Naguru housing estate are demanding for answers from the government why the companies that got the contract to redevelop the estate are taking long to start off the work.

The KCCA Councilor, Mohammad Kajubi who represents Kiswa parish to Nakawa division says that some of the people the government evicted from Nakawa-Naguru estate had stayed on the land for over 40 years and they had become legal sitting tenants.

But the government evicted them without compensation, promising that the estate was going to be redeveloped early enough and they get some apartments. Councilor Kajubi says that most of the former residents of Nakawa-Naguru estate still have not got alternative homes and they are waiting for the area to be redeveloped so that they enter the apartments the government promised them.

Kajubi says that the defunct Nakawa-Naguru estate is now bushy and snakes scrawl to peoples homes. Councilor Kajubi says that it looks the soldiers the government deployed to guard the site are now guarding snakes that scrawl allover the area.

While addressing the members of the press in Nakawa yesterday, Kajubi threatened that failure by the government to redevelop Nakawa Housing estate within three months he will not hesitate to mobilise the residents to stage a violent demonstration.  The government allocated the Nakawa- Naguru estates land to Opecprime Company for redevelopment in 2007. The sitting tenants petitioned court for a temporally injunction stopping their eviction from the estate until they are compensated.
In December 2010, the high court rejected the tenants application for a temporally injunction and ordered them to pave way for redevelopment.