Sh15b to widen Bwaise-Rubigi channel
Nov 20, 2007
THE World Bank has approved a sh15b grant to help widen the Bwaise-Rubigi channel and prevent flooding in Kawempe Division.
By Chris Kiwawulo
THE World Bank has approved a sh15b grant to help widen the Bwaise-Rubigi channel and prevent flooding in Kawempe Division.
Nasser Takuba, the area chairman, said the channel would be enlarged to about 50 metres from the current five metres. Bwaise and Kalerwe areas get flooded whenever water spills over the Bwaise-Rubigi channel banks.
Takuba noted that the division expected the flooding to stop after the construction of the Northern Bypass but the situation only worsened.
He appealed to the Government to help the residents.
“People are dying. They have been rendered homeless. They lack means of surviving.â€
THE World Bank has approved a sh15b grant to help widen the Bwaise-Rubigi channel and prevent flooding in Kawempe Division.
Nasser Takuba, the area chairman, said the channel would be enlarged to about 50 metres from the current five metres. Bwaise and Kalerwe areas get flooded whenever water spills over the Bwaise-Rubigi channel banks.
Takuba noted that the division expected the flooding to stop after the construction of the Northern Bypass but the situation only worsened.
He appealed to the Government to help the residents.
“People are dying. They have been rendered homeless. They lack means of surviving.â€