By APN Reporter
apearlnews.com
Authorities in Kabale District have today launched rehabilitation
works on the 13-kilometer Kigarama-Kavu road in Maziba Sub County.
The road that connects Nyanja and Karweru parishes with Rwanda, is
estimated to cost 615 million shillings.
Speaking at the launch of rehabilitation works at Heigugwe Trading
Center, in Kanyakutana cell of Nyanja parish, the Kabale district
Engineer, Januario Turinawe Bagamuhunda, explained that the scope of
rehabilitation works, includes site preparatory works, setting out and
site clearing work, graveling, and others.
He added that the District, has already received, 270 million
shillings out of 615 million shillings required to undertake the
project, which will be implemented by the district under Force
Account.
The Ndorwa East Member of Parliament, Wilfred Niwagaba, and the Kabale
District Woman Member of Parliament, Catherine Atwakiire Ndamira, said
that they lobbied the funds from the Ministry of Finance, as an
Emergency fund from Uganda Road Fund.
They noted that the road will facilitate easy transportation of agricultural products like
pineapples, onions, and avocados among others to market places.
The Legislators promised to continue lobbying, until when all roads
in the District are upgraded to be better standards.
The Kabale Resident District Commissioner, Godfrey Nyakahuma, the
district Principal Assistant Secretary, James Mugisha, and the District
LC5 Vice Chairperson, Miria Akankwasa Tugume, commended the
cooperation that exists between the legislators in the District, which
they said has helped to improve service delivery, since the
legislators are able to lobby a project together.
They also called on the residents to own the road project, and ensure that they supervise
it well so that quality work is executed.
