Kampala Floods Are Not Natural—They Are a Governance Failure, Says Road Safety Official

Kampala’s recurring floods are a governance failure rather than a natural disaster, according to senior road safety official Ronald Amanyire, who has warned that continued compensation of victims will not solve the underlying crisis.

Amanyire, the Principal Road Safety Officer at Uganda’s Ministry of Works and Transport, said the capital and the wider Greater Kampala Metropolitan Area are flooding because critical systems meant to manage storm water have been weakened, ignored, or captured over time.