Government Plans to Relocate Ministries to Bwebajja by 2028
The government of Uganda has finalized plans to move all ministries to a centralized location at Bwebajja in Wakiso District by 2028. This announcement was made by Hajj Yunus Kakande, the permanent secretary in the Office of the President.
Plans have been finalised by the Ugandan government to relocate all ministries by 2028 to a single site at Bwebajja in the Wakiso District. The permanent secretary of the Office of the President, Hajj Yunus Kakande, made this declaration on August 16, 2024.
The relocation aims to consolidate government operations and reduce the high rent costs currently incurred for office spaces in Kampala. The new one-stop center at Bwebajja will house all ministries except for the Ministry of Security and Defense, along with related agencies such as the Internal Security Organization (ISO) and the Chieftaincy of Military Intelligence (CMI). These entities will remain at their current locations due to the specific nature of their work.
The plan was revealed during a presidential affairs committee hearing led by Alex Bakunda Byarugaba, MP for Isingiro South, and attended by State Minister for Kampala and Metropolitan Affairs, Kabuye Kyofatogabye.
The hearing addressed concerns raised by Peter Okot, the Democratic Party whip in Parliament, regarding the ongoing requests from ministries for office construction and rent budgets.
Okot questioned the coordination of the new plan with existing budgetary requests from various ministries. He wondered if the requests for construction and office rent were part of a strategy to pool resources and eventually fund the centralized Bwebajja project.
This relocation plan follows a 2019 government decision to freeze the construction of new offices for Government Ministries, Departments, and Agencies (MDAs), signaling a shift towards a more unified administrative structure.
