Objection to Development of a Solar-powered, Eco-friendly Modern Commercial and Business Complex at City Square, Kampala

 BAKAMPA BRIAN BARYAGUMA

MOBILE: +256753124713 / +256772748300;

EMAIL: bakampasenior@gmail.com;

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Kampala, Uganda.

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Monday, 21^st September, 2026.

To:

1.                 H.E. Yoweri Kaguta Museveni,

President of the Republic of Uganda,

Office of the President,

P.O. Box 7168, KAMPALA.

2.                 Hon. Kabanda Minsa,

Minister for Kampala Capital City and Metropolitan Affairs,

KAMPALA.

Dear Your Excellency and Hon. Minister,

Re:    Objection to Development of a Solar-powered, Eco-friendly Modern Commercial and Business Complex at City Square, Kampala

The letter was duly served on H.E. the President and the Honourable Minister as can be seen from the signature and stamp acknowledging receipt of it.

Thank you for the good work you are doing for our country. God bless you.

Reference is made to H.E. the President’s letter, reference number PO/1, addressed to the Minister for Kampala Capital City and Metropolitan Affairs, entitled, “Proposal for the Development of a Solar-powered, Eco-friendly Modern Commercial and Business Complex at City Square, Kampala.” In the letter, Your Excellency says that you received a letter from Hajj Hassan Bulwadda proposing to develop the two acres at City Square in Kampala into a modern, eco-friendly real-estate complex, with a hotel, shopping mall, etc., using solar-power, etc. Consequently, you direct the Minister to study the proposal and get back to you. I thank Hajj Bulwadda for his fronted proposal, but I write to oppose his plans.

President Museveni's letter to the Minister for Kampala Capital City and Metropolitan Affairs directing her to study Hajj Hassan Bulwadda's proposal to redevelop City Square (otherwise formally known as Constitutional Square).

Mr. President and Madam Minister, I am really not an environmentalist as such or an expert on environmental matters/issues; and so I assure you that this letter will not harangue you with the usual, somewhat complicated stuff in that field that are said in boardrooms, conferences and similar occasions. Rather, my take on this matter is purely premised on one thing: COMMON SENSE. In fact, I shall not even waste your precious time and energy on a detailed discussion on the now familiar topic of preserving green spaces in our country, more so Kampala.

Your Excellency and Hon. Minister, it is a matter of common sense that that piece of land we call City Square, so centrally and strategically located in the heart of Kampala, the capital city of Uganda, adjacent to Judiciary Headquarters, our central bank (Bank of Uganda) Kampala Central Police Station, with State House–Nakasero and Sheraton Kampala Hotel not far away, should be kept open, vacant, green, undisturbed. We can maybe just add a water fountain to enhance the Square’s beauty and majesty. KCCA officials should study the desirability of that; otherwise the place would still look nice even without a water fountain. Just make it cleaner and decongested. Mr. President and Madam Minister, I know that you are well read and travelled people: where in the world have you seen a serious city without a place like City Square? A city that is all built, without open spaces. Really? Where have you seen that?

  

You see, one must have a sense of aesthetic beauty, a taste for class and penchant for good orderliness. On this note, I must observe that this obsession with concrete everywhere among some of you, our beloved leaders, is really amazing, but also very worrisome and totally uncalled for. City Square is an obvious breathing space, so-to-speak, in our capital city.  However nice sounding Hajj Bulwadda’s proposed developments are, they cannot beat the physical efficacy of City Square.

    

I usually move on the roads at City Square when in town; and I wonder why the place is neglected ­– almost abandoned, administratively – with the roads half-blocked, kind of used as a dumping ground for old, dilapidated cars in dangerous mechanical condition (D.M.C.s). But now it is beginning to make sense to me: it is part of a cleverly disguised scheme to grab that piece of prime land for substandard developments compared with the value in the place’s natural usefulness.

     

I believe Hajj Bulwadda’s proposal will bring for us bulwadde (Luganda word for diseases) due to congestion caused. There are many other places in Uganda that can accommodate his planned modern, eco-friendly real-estate complex, with a hotel, shopping mall, etc., using solar-power, etc. Let him take his developments there. Please leave City Square, Kampala alone.

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Both the mind that can conceive and contrive such an idea and the one that entertains it for a place like City Square are to me highly suspect. It seems some people are born and grow up in overcrowding, congestion and filth that unfortunately never leave their heads and hearts no matter how much they grow, are educated or get exposed to better conditions, people and places. I hope Your Excellency and Hon. Minister do not join the cluster and side of such people.

For God and my country,

­­­­­­­­­­­­­­[signed]

Bakampa Brian Baryaguma

Mobile:       0753124713 / 0772748300.

Email:         bakampasenior@gmail.com.

Web:           www.huntedthinker.blogspot.ug.

Overriding Circumstances Justifying Overlooking the Court’s First In, First Out Principle, Necessitating Appointing a Panel of Justices to Hear and Determine Civil Appeal No. COA-00-CV-CA-0186-2022, Bakampa Brian Baryaguma v. Law Development Centre and Civil Application No. COA-00-CV-CL-0775-2022, Bakampa Brian Baryaguma v. Law Development Centre

 BAKAMPA BRIAN BARYAGUMA

MOBILE: +256753124713 / +256772748300;

EMAIL: bakampasenior@gmail.com;

WEB ADDRESS: www.huntedthinker.blogspot.com;

Kampala, Uganda.

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Monday, 30^th March, 2026.

To:

The Court Administrator,

Court of Appeal of Uganda,

Courts of Judicature,

KAMPALA.

Your Lordship,

Re: Overriding Circumstances Justifying Overlooking the Court’s First In, First Out Principle, Necessitating Appointing a Panel of Justices to Hear and Determine Civil Appeal No. COA-00-CV-CA-0186-2022, Bakampa Brian Baryaguma v. Law Development Centre and Civil Application No. COA-00-CV-CL-0775-2022, Bakampa Brian Baryaguma v. Law Development Centre

"What counts in life is not the mere fact that we have lived. It is what difference we have made to the lives of others that will determine the significance of the life we lead," Nelson Mandela.

Thank you for your good service to Uganda, my Lord. God bless you.

The letter was duly served on the Court Administrator and L.D.C.'s advocates as can be seen from the signature and stamp acknowledging receipt of it. The registrar's copy was put on the court's online portal, ECCMIS.

I have written many letters to Your Lordship and to the former Deputy Chief Justice requesting for a panel of justices to hear and determine my above captioned appeal and its attendant application. But my requests have been denied on all occasions.

In reply to my latest letter dated Friday, 20^th February, 2026, Your Lordship instructed HW the Registrar to constitute a panel in compliance with this court’s first in, first out principle. I am very grateful for this directive; thank you very much, my Lord. But it is not enough because effectively it means that the case cannot be heard urgently and soon enough, like in the upcoming session of April this year that I am reliably informed of, considering that there are already older cases that are cause-listed to be heard first and disposed of by the court.

Fortunately, I learnt that if there are overriding or extraordinary circumstances justifying overlooking the fist in, first out principle, then latter cases can be churned out before earlier ones; and, my Lord, there indeed exist such circumstances in my case i.e. one, that it is soon being rendered moot and, two, my professional career life and prospects are fast dwindling due to denial of justice.

On my case being soon rendered moot

Your Lordship, as I pointed out in my previous letters, the Government of Uganda is in the process of abolishing the Law Development Centre (LDC) – my opponent in the case – and Attorney General has already issued a draft Bill to this effect. By this Bill, people who failed three or more examinations at LDC but are not registered students of LDC immediately before the commencement of the Act, are shut out of the proposed National Legal Examinations Centre (NLEC) and are thus never to become advocates to practise their profession. See clause 53 (2) and (3) (draft of 22^nd July 2025). (The relevant page of the Bill having the clause is extracted and hereon attached as “A” for your reference.)

In summary, sub-clause (2) provides that a person who immediately before the commencement of the Act was registered as a student of LDC and has failed three or more examinations shall enroll to study the postgraduate diploma in legal practice programme at an accredited institution. On the other hand, sub-clause (3) propounds that a person who immediately before the commencement of the Act was registered as a student of LDC, fails a supplementary examination set by the envisaged National Legal Examinations Centre shall apply to study the postgraduate diploma in legal practice programme at an accredited institution. My Lord, I am adversely affected by this provision.

I fall squarely in the category of people locked out of the new NLEC because as the situation stands now, I stand dismissed from LDC for failing four (4) examinations. Actually, it is not far-fetched to say that I am the primary and principal target of this sinister and bad-hearted provision, aiming at making my case in this court moot. What an absurdity this is!

For reason of avoiding this absurdity and preventing the court itself from being somewhat responsible for occasioning injustice to me, I request Your Lordship to appoint a panel of justices to hear and determine my said appeal and its attendant application.

On my professional career life and prospects fast dying out due to injustice

My Lord, I am now forty (40) years old and soon to be 41, on 5^th August 2026. Clearly the days of me practising my legal profession are fast dwindling and phasing out. Yet law is my only course/profession. It is not like I have any other before it on which to fall back.

Therefore, on this account also, I earnestly request the Court of Appeal, through Your Lordship, to give me a chance to salvage what little is left of my career prospects by giving me a chance to make my case before a panel of justices for justice to be served. My case is very good, with high probability of success. I spent many years fighting for reforms at LDC so that later students do not suffer the same abuse my peers and I endured; now is my turn to be liberated also.

In conclusion, I implore Your Lordship to find my aforesaid extraordinary circumstances meritorious enough to justify overlooking the court’s first in, first out principle, thus necessitating appointing a panel of justices to hear and determine Civil Appeal No. COA-00-CV-CA-0186-2022, Bakampa Brian Baryaguma v. Law Development Centre and its attendant application, Civil Application No. COA-00-CV-CL-0775-2022, Bakampa Brian Baryaguma v. Law Development Centre. Pleadings and conferencing have been concluded.

My Lord, even if it is said that my opponent, LDC, will be replaced by another entity, the National Legal Examinations Centre, against which I can continue my case (but remember that the proposed law prohibits this), surely the ease, simplicity and clarity with which prosecution of the case can be done cannot be the same as if it were with LDC – much like it is when dealing with an administrator of an estate vis-à-vis the deceased person him/herself. Removing LDC will negatively impact the progress, outcome and even conclusion of my case. Imagine, for example, how would I complete my bar course, if need be? It is therefore imperative that a court bench be empanelled immediately to dispose of the case. A slot in the upcoming April session will be most appreciated.

Most obliged,

[signed]

Bakampa Brian Baryaguma

Appellant/Applicant

Mob: +256753124713.

Email: bakampasenior@gmail.com.

 

 

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