By George Tinka
Three Hoima City technical officers have been directed to record statements at Hoima CPS this morning for allegedly approving the construction of a storied building on the condemned Cadam building along Old-Tooro Road in Hoima city.
The trio is the Boniventure Kiiiza the City engineer, Geoffrey Muhumuza the Physical planner and Innocent Ahimbisibwe the Hoima City Town Clerk.
The directive followed an inspection on Thursday by a team of officials from the National Building Review Board-NBRB led by Jafar Magezi, the head of enforcement.
Magezi has further ordered that Cadam building be condoned off in order to prevent accidents on the construction site.
Construction of a storied building on top of the Cadam building has in the past few weeks been a public outcry with various stakeholders wondering how a building that was condemned in the early 1990’s by the then Hoima Town Council can be reconstructed without being demolished first.
This led to the intervention of the National Building Review Board that has found out that the three Hoima City officials connived to approve the construction of the building.
Magezi says the building has several cracks with rusted iron bars which would result into accidents.
The board, which is charged with ensuring standardization of construction works in the country, has also halted the construction of Cadam building.
Ausi Balyesiima, a Hoima city resident, has blamed the city authorities for always keeping a deaf ear to the public concerns on the building and commended NBRB for the intervention.
Sunday Byenkya the chairman Kangabaije says they have got hope on the response of the mushrooming buildings in the City hence requesting National Building Review Board to respond positively and avoid being corrupt.
By the time we filled this story the Hoima City authorities, Security Officials and the National Building Review Board had an enclosed meeting where journalists were denied access.
