Pictorial! Nakivubo Stadium Redevelopment Is Steadily Progressing- Says Hamis Kiggundu
By Uganda Online Media
City businessman Hamis Kiggundu aka Ham who assumed full responsibility for redeveloping Nakivubo stadium is delivering quite impressive results and sports lovers will soon be jubilating when the sports facility opens after years of hard work.
Ham who effortlessly updates sports lovers and Ugandans at large about the different steps and stages involving the redevelopment of the multimillion stadium says the mega arena will not just be a stadium in the heart of Kampala but will also leave an unerasable legacy in the development of the sports industry in Uganda.
“The stadium project equally makes business sense with incomes since it has commercial premises attached and from a realistic and a reasonable point of view, this is not just a stadium but a legacy and clear illustration to all Ugandans that if Uganda is to develop, it’s our responsibility as Ugandans to develop the motherland,” Ham said recently.
Here Is The Pictorial Of Nakivubo Stadium Under Redevelopment
The state-of-the-art stadium will also envelop a football playground, a two-level pavilion, netball grounds, two suspended floors and a rooftop with provisions for evacuating people to safety in case of danger in the stadium since it is surrounded by arcades and shopping malls. This will create an impressive ecosystem in which the stadium and the community in which it is situated predate each other.
Important still, these impressive refurbishings will give Uganda’s War Memorial Stadium an extensive and impressive facelift on top of revolutionalizing the country’s sports sector, amidst relentless demands for modern sports facilities by citizens.
The stadium is also built to have a sitting capacity of 35,000 spectators with three entrances to the gate. These include one that will ply the facility from Ssebana Kizito Road and two gates along Kafumbe-Mukasa road above other emergency exits.
Kiggundu’s prime aim is to exert considerable ground-breaking creative efforts and excellent technical know-how that will enable the stadium to meet standards set by the Federation of International Football Association (FIFA), on top of being the top sports facility on the African continent.
It also houses facilities to cater for people with disabilities (PWDs) and multi-level parking facilities to envelope thousands of cars, with the pitch 1.5m higher than the Kafumbe-Mukasa road, and 3.5m lower than Ssebana Kizito road to mitigate impacts of flooding.
The pitch also presents four zones for different categories of people including Very Important Persons (VIPs), among others.
Initially, the redevelopment of this project had been blocked by several city tycoons who claimed the deal was illegally awarded to Ham, but later on, backed off after learning that then Kampala Minister Hon. Betty Kamya had issued an order permitting Kiggundu to revamp the facility.
