Heavy Rain Leaves Kampala Under Water

Added: 2026-05-09

[00:00:00]So, guys, yesterday floods, like like flood or a city or a city or a Kampala and it is not really good that is, you know, it is happening in the middle of the city. Yeah, but this is the third time it is really happening and uh today I'm out of words, if I may say that. Today I'm out of words uh because every time it happens, the government always promise people money for compensation, you know, but uh it doesn't really happen, you know. So, today I don't know what they're going to really tell us, but yesterday it was really bad. Yeah, it was really bad.

[00:00:39]Um but I'm going to show you around. I'm going to really show you around. And you guys, let me know in the comment section, you know, as you can see like these videos. Yeah.

[00:00:49]That's is how that is how bad it was.

[00:00:51]Yeah, if you can see these videos, that is how bad it was. It was really bad.

[00:00:56]People lost uh however much it was not so much. It was not really bad, but it was It flooded. Yeah, it it flooded and it was I don't know. I don't know. I really don't know. Yeah, but uh I'm going to show you how like uh Kampala is, how people are after the flood because it happened yesterday around lunchtime, around afternoon time.

[00:01:20]So, today this morning it is around I think 8:00. Yeah, so I'm going to show you how the business are, how people are in the the specific building that that was really affected with the flood.

[00:01:31]Yeah.

[00:01:47]village Yeah, we have a container village here.

[00:02:03]>> You can see all planes.

[00:02:20]You know, that is how bad it is.

[00:02:23]That is really how bad it is.

[00:02:26]Yeah.

[00:02:27]I think the drainage systems that they did, I don't know if they're helping or not because, yeah, they constructed them telling us how floods are going to be stopped because they are, you know?

[00:02:38]But I don't think they're really helping. I don't think I don't know. I don't know.

[00:02:43]I don't want to be uh negative about my country, but I just don't know how their plan is. Yeah, how this is helping. Kampala large.

[00:02:56]Because I'm seeing it is actually becoming even worse because before in the construction of the drainage system Okay, floods were there, but the amount are rapid as they are now, you know? Now people are afraid whenever it rains. I don't know what is really next. You don't know what is really whether it's going to flood or not, you know?

[00:03:15]So, I just don't know if maybe their plan wasn't what they, you know? But uh Let's wait to see their response about the whole thing.

[00:03:26]Yeah, let us just wait and see the the response about the entire thing because I don't know what they are going to tell us this time around. Yeah, you see?

[00:03:44]That is how bad it is.

[00:03:47]That is really how bad it is.

[00:03:51]For a city like my capital city to look like this, oh my goodness, doesn't really make sense. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[00:03:58]When it doesn't When it's not raining, when it's sunny days, it's the best place to be in. But whenever it rains, you're always under pressure and stress. You don't know if what is what is really going to happen after, whether it's going to flood or not, whether your business is going to survive or not. Yeah, so that is the situation around Kampala. Here we have the Indian temple. I did a video about the Indian temple, you can go out and check it and watch it. Yeah, it's really an amazing one. Yeah, you can go and watch it.

[00:04:30]And guys, uh Yeah, so this is a drainage system.

[00:04:36]You can see. They look to be big, but you can see even the water is really stuck in there, which means you see?

[00:04:44]The water is really stuck in there.

[00:04:51]You know, the water is really stuck in there, which means I don't know if [snorts] uh the pipes are blocked or not. I don't know. I just really don't know. Yeah, but when you look look at this uh drainage system, the trenches, yeah. Now when you look around here, you see?

[00:05:16]So, when you look around here, you know, I don't know. I don't know. I really don't know. When now just look at here, it was really bad. It was really really really bad. Just look there.

[00:05:35]Just look how bad it is. That is all muddy. Remember, this is a drain a drainage system, but look just look how it is.

[00:05:49]Yeah, this is how muddy it is. The waste are all here and yeah, this is a drainage system.

[00:05:57]It is just full of water. You know, the water may I think they I think the pipes they put in here they are blocked. The pipes are blocked, which means the water has no way to go. That's why whenever it rains, heavily rains, it end up like flooding. Yeah, it ends up flooding. That is I think that is the main reason why.

[00:06:20]I think that is the main reason why.

[00:06:27]>> [snorts] >> I just wanted to see how the flyover is.

[00:06:30]Yeah.

[00:06:31]Because yesterday, oh my goodness, it was really full of water. Really, really full of water.

[00:06:46]And sometimes, yeah, it causes traffic jam to be really too much. Yeah. Now, just look around this place.

[00:07:07]And uh to be honest, this project has really delayed. I remember I did a video I and I interviewed some uh boda boda guys around here and they were like, this project has really delayed and uh because it's in the middle of the city and it's uh the road that uh the taxis, the boda bodas used to used to go to maybe Arua Park, uh the Garden City, but it but they are limited. Actually, they cannot even use this this path because of the construction that is really going on.

[00:07:40]They have taken all over like I think it's now like 8 months when this project is really going on. So, I think they have delayed it since it is in the middle of the city.

[00:07:51]So, they had to work as fast as they can, you know?

[00:07:56]Because the the road is always busy busy, you know, people using So, they had to be at least far as fast as they can but they didn't get maybe on their own pace.

[00:08:08]However much we we appreciate the work they do, yeah. We really appreciate the work they do but I think they have to fasten a bit.

[00:08:15]Yeah, they have to fasten a bit. So, now so far this is it. Last time I didn't live right now they are smashed. It's a There was a person that went went but they have really delayed a bit. I think this is one of the reasons why we are still experiencing floods in the city.

[00:08:30]Yeah, I think this is the one reason why we are still experiencing it.

[00:08:36]Because it's also a drainage system.

[00:08:39]I'll show you I'll go show you around the other area.

[00:08:42]Yeah.

[00:08:45]It's the one drainage system that was supposed to reduce the floods that is supposed to reduce the floods in Kampala but they have really delayed.

[00:08:54]Really really really delayed. Now, this is how the place is. This is how it is.

[00:09:02]Yeah, so guys this is the reality. Today I'm so negative about the entire thing about Kampala but yeah, I won't say positive things when something is really happening behind curtains behind behind cameras. We have to be honest and transparent, you know?

[00:09:18]So, this is what is really happening around Kampala. Yeah, this is what is really happening around Kampala. You can see the waste. This trench has been here for over a month. Yeah, when it it is not really worked on and actually by accident God forbid someone can can, you know, can It can be killed in here, you know, because it's a big one and it is not really worked on, but yeah, this is it.

[00:09:42]Today, I don't know why, but yeah, I have to be transparent. I have to be honest what is what with what is really happening around the city. Yeah, and this is it. You can see traffic is everywhere. It's because of jam, because they had to to like to make sure that they finish this road in time because all these cars used to use this road to the old tax park, to the new tax park. Yeah, but because it is it is not yet done, it is closed.

[00:10:11]Cars end up using this side. That's why Oh, my friend.

[00:10:16]How are you?

[00:10:25]So, guys, yeah, this is the natural channel. It was also, you know, it was flooded with water. Yeah, it was really flooded with water yesterday. Last time it was this building that was really affected. Yeah, this one before it was the last time which right where the train. Yeah, this is the building that was really affected. Yeah, but this time around, even natural channel was affected. Remember, it was on top of the channel. Yeah, it's top of the channel.

[00:10:55]That's why it's called natural channel.

[00:10:57]Yeah, but uh but this is what it is. People are back to work. Yeah, people are really back to work.

[00:11:21]Yeah.

[00:11:23]But I I hope uh at least they resolve this issue because yeah, there was a building that is coming up there.

[00:11:32]Uh it's the former Nakumatt. Yeah.

[00:11:36]It's the former Nakumatt that yeah.

[00:11:39]A new building is coming up there.

[00:11:46]So this is Kampala people Kampala is on for a week. Yeah, it rains. It destroys business and tomorrow you're back to it.

[00:12:00]You try.

[00:12:02]You get You get a way of sorting yourself out.

[00:12:05]You know, either that you you work again.

[00:12:09]That is how Kampala is.

[00:12:11]Yeah.

[00:12:20]So this is it.

[00:12:22]Yeah, this is all of all of natural channel. Yeah.

[00:12:27]That is it. That is how it is, but after after sometimes they don't they don't really respond to what they always promise people. Yeah, but uh So people I think people are used to it.

[00:12:42]They don't feel like they won't even talk about it anymore because it is the same thing that is really have been happening and the government has done nothing about it.

[00:12:52]Yeah.

[00:12:54]So this is the channel. This This part is still under construction, you know.

[00:12:58]Yeah.

[00:13:00]It's still under construction.

[00:13:05]Yeah, yeah.

[00:13:21]Yeah.

[00:13:22]It's still under construction, you can see.

[00:13:25]Yeah.

[00:13:29]I say this one building that is really changing the face of Kampala, you know?

[00:13:34]I just imagine when it's done, fully done. Yeah, from from here to the end of it, when it's really done it's going to be It has already changed the face of Kampala, but still it comes with consequences of floods, you know? Yeah, because it's on the top of uh I don't know if this time around it's the one that caused floods. I really don't know I'm not talking about that, but uh it always comes with consequences.

[00:14:04]It comes with consequences. Yeah, but that is it.

[00:14:13]The whole of this place was Owino Market, but yeah, Owino is no more.

[00:14:18]Okay, it's there, but yeah it's no longer as big as it was before, you know?

[00:14:25]Yeah.

[00:14:27]Guys, there is a construction that is going on here.

[00:15:11]Yeah.

[00:15:12]It's already uh it's it's approaching 8:00 here in Kampala and this is how the atmosphere is after the floods yesterday. Yeah, it really rained yesterday and yeah This is a number one road.

[00:15:27]These are the natural water channel buildings. Yeah.

[00:15:37]So, let us go and see the situation there.

[00:15:55]So, this is the building that was really affected around this area yesterday.

[00:16:02]Yeah, you couldn't even pass around here.

[00:16:05]So, it was really dangerous yesterday.

[00:16:11]Let us go and see. Let us go and see.

[00:16:15]Look here.

[00:16:49]This is how the place is. Yeah, this is the building that was really affected.

[00:16:55]Yeah.

[00:17:01]You can see all over the place.

[00:17:03]You know?

[00:17:06]We still have uh you know, muddy muddy muddy area here.

[00:17:12]Yeah.

[00:17:15]This building here yesterday it was really full of water.

[00:17:19]Yeah, but people have already opened up their shops you know because they have to hustle, they have to work. Yeah, life has to move on.

[00:17:27]Yeah, I don't know if I'll get uh some people to interview, but the whole of this street was really full of water yesterday. You couldn't even pass here because of water.

[00:17:38]Yes.

[00:17:39]The whole of this street, it was it was just full it was really just full of water. From here to the other side and all over this place.

[00:17:50]Yeah, it was just full of water. It was really just full of water.

[00:17:55]I don't know what the government is going to do about it. Yeah, because it has really happened multiple times and uh people are being affected.

[00:18:05]Yeah, and they always promise them for like for compensation, but it doesn't really happen. So, this is the third time it it is really happening and uh yeah.

[00:18:16]Businesses are being You can see all over here.

[00:18:20]Businesses are being destroyed, you know? People have lost their properties, their goods. And uh the government has always been like, "We're okay. We're going to compensate you." But at the end of the day, they don't compensate them.

[00:18:33]So, I don't know what is really happening. Yeah, but whenever it heavily rains around Kampala, this is what This is what really happens every time it rains, you know?

[00:18:47]It's always this bad. It affects people because business and So, this is the motorized corridor we said we have a cheap road, but the whole of this side this side it was really full of water yesterday.

[00:19:04]Yeah, it was really really full of water yesterday.

[00:19:11]Yeah, and Yes, and the area along the Nachivole Channel, the same thing. It is what it is here, but yeah, they have to come back to work and As you can see, everyone is going on their businesses, you know?

[00:19:27]So.

[00:19:30]Let's just see how the whole place is. Yeah, I'm going to go up to a a flyover because all that place were really flooded. The water is down.

[00:19:42]So, I just want to show the situation of how uh but I'm seeing as you can see, people already are like uh back to work.

[00:19:49]Yeah, they are they they don't have water there because