President Museveni commissioned more than a dozen infrastructure development projects, including five roads, four markets, two power substations and a water transport vessel all worth at least Shs1.3 trillion in the last 50 days of last year.
The projects include those that are complete and operational and others on which work commences during the course of this year. Two out of the five roads, namely the 44.5km Bumbobi-Lwakhaha Road in eastern Uganda, and the Ishaka-Katungulu Road in western Uganda, are complete.
The Bumbobi-Lwakhakha Road, which traverses the districts of Mbale, Manafwa and Namisindwa, starting a few kilometres outside Mbale on the Mbale-Tororo highway, through Bubulo and ends up in Lwakhaha on the common border with Kenya, was constructed at a cost of Shs153b.
The 58km Ishaka-Katunguru Road, which starts in Ishaka Town and ends at Katunguru Bridge, connects the districts of Bushenyi and Rubirizi to Kasese.
The works, which also included tarmacking of a 2.67km access road to West Ankole Diocese, cost Shs118b.
Roads to be constructed
Work on the other three roads, namely the 92km Muyembe-Nakapiripirit Road, the 16km Kira-Kasangati-Matugga road, and the 11km Najjanankumbi-Busaabala Road, is set to commence this year.
The Kira-Matugga road is to be constructed by the Chongqing International Construction Corporation (CICO) at a cost of Shs200b, while the Najjanankumbi-Busaabala Road is to be constructed by China State Construction Engineering Corporation at a cost of Shs258.8b.
Work on the Kira-Matugga Road will start at Kira Town roundabout and entails turning the 2km section linking Kira to Kyaliwajjala into a dual carriage way with four lanes and providing pedestrian walkways and cycle lanes.
Work on Busaabala Road, which leads to One Love Beach owned by the former presidential candidate and leader of the National Unity Platform (NUP) party Robert Kyagulanyi, alias Bobi Wine, will also include rehabilitation of the Namasole Road and two inter changes on the Kampala- Entebbe Expressway.
Muyembe-Nakapiripirit road, which starts at Muyembe on the Mbale-Nakapiripirit road, where the tarmac stops and end in Nakapiripirit Town, is to be upgraded from gravel to tarmac by Turkey-based firm Polat Yol Yapi Sanayi Ve Ticaret A.S at a cost of Shs400b. Cost of roads The five roads are to cost Uganda a total of Shs1 trillion out of which Shs577b or 51 per cent of the funds have been made available by government through the Uganda National Development and Maintenance Programme (NRDMP), under which work on Ishaka-Katunguru Road was funded.NRDMP will also […]
