Inspection teams from government were impressed to find out that Turkish construction giants SUMMA who are putting up Uganda’s second national stadium in Hoima City are working at an “impressively furious pace.”
On Saturday 11th January 2025, the team on site for the third inspection of the project including the National Council of Sports (NCS) Assistant General Secretary Administration, Joseph Oluga, Engineering Officer Nicholas Zirimenya, and the supervising consultants from the Ministry of Works and Transport, did the rounds.
SUMMA have been charged with completing the $129m multi-sports complex in 18 months, but projections on the ground are such that they just might deliver well before that timeframe.
Along with the main 20,000-seater stadium will come a 2,000-seater indoor multi-sports arena, a training pitch, a semi-Olympic-sized swimming pool, a 1,000-plus vehicle parking lot, and outdoor courts for basketball, netball and volleyball which are already taking shape too.
According to the NCS, Hoima has been primed to be Uganda’s second host city for the 2027 Africa Cup of Nations due in the East African Nations of Uganda, Kenya and Tanzania.
