Kasese starts security roads rehabilitation
Kasese Resident District Commissioner (RDC) Lt. Joe Walusimbi said when the roads are completed, it will be easy for them to manage security along the border.
Lt. Joe Walusimbi, the Kasese RDC addressing residents. (Photos by Samuel Amanyire)
By Samuel Amanyire
Journalists @New Vision
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For years, the Uganda-DR Congo (DRC) porous border areas in Kasese district have made the area prone to attacks from wrong elements, including rebels, especially the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF).
However, swift response to these attacks has always been hampered by impassable roads and terrain.
Unfortunately, most of the lower local governments, mainly in the same location, including Kanyatsi-Kitoma town council, Isango Ihandiro, Kitholu and Munkunyu sub-counties, have poor and impassable roads.
This has at times hindered the movement of troops, war machinery and Police patrol vans, among others, hence allowing the enemies to attack residents without any resistance and easily escape.
To reduce the above challenge, the Kasese District Local Government (KDLG) has embarked on rehabilitating security roads in Kanyatsi-Kitoma town council and Isango sub-county.
Speaking to New Vision Online on May 11, 2025, shortly after the launch, Kasese Resident District Commissioner (RDC) Lt. Joe Walusimbi said when the roads are completed, it will be easy for them to manage security along the border.
"Because security is paramount for our people to develop," Walusimbi said.
He used the same platform to remind the people of Kasese about the mega infrastructural projects President Yoweri Museveni has done for them, including standard roads, bridges, markets, a hospital and schools and asked them to rally behind him in the forthcoming elections.
"Voting for the President is the only way to appreciate him," he said.
District engineer speaks out
Kasese district engineer Ronald Asiimwe said two major security roads have been prioritised: Isango-Bulemera-Kabwe road (8km) and Rusese-Kyembara (5km).
"The nature of construction will be grading, murram and sand levelling, which will cost shillings 164,340,000 and shillings 100 million, respectively. The funds are part of the shillings one billion given to every district for road maintenance," Asiimwe said.
LC5 speaks out
District LC5 chairperson Eliphazi Muhindi Bukombi urged the residents to utilise the security roads to transport their goods to various markets and eradicate poverty from their homes.
"I encourage you to embrace comprehensive agriculture and then take full advantage of the roads," Muhindi said.
He also appealed to the residents to own the road and be at far front in the maintenance works since they are the immediate beneficiaries.