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Jennifer Musisi Quotes

born 1960 Uganda

Jennifer Semakula Musisi (born c. 1965) is a Ugandan lawyer, public administrator, and academic. She gained prominence as the first Executive Director of the Kampala Capital City Authority (KCCA) from 2011 to 2018, where she spearheaded significant transformations in the Ugandan capital.

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It’s a sacrifice because you don’t have time do something else.

It made me realize that if they're willing to put up a fight this big, that means what they're losing is also very big.

A lot of countries and organizations are interested in what we’re doing.

We have received a lot of interest from other municipalities in Uganda.

Our target is to plant a million trees within the next five years.

The idea is to make Kampala attractive, which it wasn’t before.

The working population is attracted to these alternatives.

You lose business, you lose your social engagements.

Rural-urban migration is going to continue to be a challenge, as long as the other urban centers in the country are not providing similar opportunities.

You lose money by being in public service.

That you are suddenly going to get rich.

I think it is a Baganda thing where people think “Ogudde mu bintu.

We hope that by government working with other agencies will be able to address this.

I don’t know why Ugandans congratulate people on government jobs.

We have had the opportunity to address Kampala’s issues and highlight Kampala’s progress all over the world.

The government is already looking at placing industries outside Kampala.

When the law was changed and the KCCA was created, it was done with the intention of addressing the challenges the city was facing.

We are working on making Kampala an attractive destination in and of itself for business, for tourists, and for people living and working in the city.

It’s not a privilege. It’s a responsibility. I’m not one to celebrate appointments.

It was more like a transit point for other parks of Uganda.

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Jennifer Musisi (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.