Tororo-Mbale road repair starts
THE Government has set aside over sh60m for the rehabilitation of the Tororo-Mbale road. The work on the 48km stretch started on Thursday.
By Moses Nampala
THE Government has set aside over sh60m for the rehabilitation of the Tororo-Mbale road. The work on the 48km stretch started on Thursday.
The Uganda National Road Authority (UNRA) eastern region manager, Eng. Kaaya Mukasa, said: “We will fix the pot-holes and areas that are in a deplorable state.â€
He said during a meeting with the Tororo resident district commissioner, Samuel Mpimbaza Hashaka, that the rehabilitation of the road was expected to end in June.
UNRA publicist, Dan Alinange said the Government would provide all the raw materials while UNRA would do the work.
Mukasa said the project was meant to ease the inconveniences that travellers and motorists were experiencing because of the poor state of the road.
He said a comprehensive reconstruction project would be implemented at the beginning of the next financial year.
Mukasa said the UNRA had been mandated to tender for services of a contractor to up-grade the road to accommodate more traffic and cargo.
The Soroti and Lira road, which had not been tarmacked, is also under construction and is due to be completed.
Mukasa also said sh15m had been secured to elevate the Tororo-Nagongera feeder road into first-class murrum.
Other roads that UNRA is working on include the Busia-Bugiri road and the the Jinja-Iganga road.
THE Government has set aside over sh60m for the rehabilitation of the Tororo-Mbale road. The work on the 48km stretch started on Thursday.
The Uganda National Road Authority (UNRA) eastern region manager, Eng. Kaaya Mukasa, said: “We will fix the pot-holes and areas that are in a deplorable state.â€
He said during a meeting with the Tororo resident district commissioner, Samuel Mpimbaza Hashaka, that the rehabilitation of the road was expected to end in June.
UNRA publicist, Dan Alinange said the Government would provide all the raw materials while UNRA would do the work.
Mukasa said the project was meant to ease the inconveniences that travellers and motorists were experiencing because of the poor state of the road.
He said a comprehensive reconstruction project would be implemented at the beginning of the next financial year.
Mukasa said the UNRA had been mandated to tender for services of a contractor to up-grade the road to accommodate more traffic and cargo.
The Soroti and Lira road, which had not been tarmacked, is also under construction and is due to be completed.
Mukasa also said sh15m had been secured to elevate the Tororo-Nagongera feeder road into first-class murrum.
Other roads that UNRA is working on include the Busia-Bugiri road and the the Jinja-Iganga road.