Cassim Namugali, the Mayor of Mbale City has revealed that the management of the Mbale City Authority didn’t invest a penny in the renovation of the Clock tower.
Namugali cleared waves of people saying that the City Council put in money to renovate the city clock tower.
While launching the official opening of the clock tower on Wednesday in Mbale City, Namugali said that there is no single penny from the council that contributed to the renovation of this project. Still, all the efforts go to Mr. James Kiwanuka who offered to renovate the tower in partnership with Airtel Uganda.
He noted that the clock tower which is decorated with coffee beans up is to identify the people of Mbale economically adding that there is to be tight security to guard and protect this building.
“We must identify ourselves with something that is going to encourage the community through empowering people economically. Coffee clearly identifies the people of Mbale,” he said
Kenneth Khatuli, the City Deputy Clerk said that the Mbale clock tower is one of the most monumental buildings in Mbale city since 1959 during the coloration of his Majesty King George Williams V.
James Kiwanuka who offered himself to renovate the clock tower says that Mbale city was the second cleanest city in East Africa after Nyakuru with clean buildings and streets based on how he found it when first visited at 16years of age a couple of years ago.
However, after some time the town was littered with too much garbage and posters killing the image of the city which pushed them to offer renovation ordering a clock to design the city. Kiwanuka says that the ringing of the clock will not inconvenience people since it is more louder to people who are far away than the people nearer to it.
He adds that the clock is a modern one and has been designed strategically to work based on the time from 5:am to 11:pm when it sleeps.
Henry Njoroge the marketing director of Airtel Uganda says that the tower represents the culture and people of Mbale as per the design around it which includes coffee seeds and plantations around.
He says that Airtel is part of society so he has to work with society to build and develop together.
