The city's residents and businesses generate an estimated 2,500 tonnes of waste every day, half of which ends up in dumping sites across the city - the biggest being Kiteezi.
But the problem is that Kiteezi lacks the on-site recycling, sorting and incineration facilities that landfills are supposed to have.
"With each layer of trash piled up, the bottom layers become weaker, especially as the decay and decomposition of organic waste increases the temperature," Mr Muramuzi explains.
"Without vents, methane and other gases remain trapped at the bottom, further multiplying the fragility of the loosely held structure."
Yet this can easily be fixed, he adds, so long as the government commits to periodic monitoring and audits which factor in environmental, social and economic needs.
Had that already been in place, "the havoc that happened in Kiteezi would have been avoided", he says.
So, if the solution is this simple, why is it not already happening?
The answer seems to be a combination of power struggles and financial mismanagement.
Ultimate responsibility for keeping Kampala "clean, habitable, and sustainable environment" lies with the KCCA, but Mayor Erias Lukwago, from the opposition Forum for Democratic Change party, says his office lacks the necessary power to enact the changes.
The KCCA says it has repeatedly proposed plans to decommission Kiteezi but says the funds needed to do so - $9.7m - exceed the city's budget and have not been made available by central government.
"All the support we have been getting is courtesy of development partners and donors like Bill and Melinda Gates, GIZ, and WaterAid… but their capacity is very limited," the Kampala mayor said recently.
"If we were getting adequate funding from the central government, we would be very far right now."
There is no word from the government on whether it will allocate funds for Kampala's biggest dump.
It did pay $1,350 to each of the families of the deceased, saying any further money would only be forthcoming if government agencies were "found to be responsible".
A month later, a report furnished by the country's police and crime investigation department led to President Yoweri Museveni - a noted political opponent of Kampala's mayor - sacking three senior KCCA officials, including the authority's executive and public health directors.