Nwoya Resident District Commissioner Christopher Omara told Uganda Radio Network in an interview Thursday that the persistent flooding of the busy highway is affecting the movement of goods and passengers into and outside West Nile.
The bodies are believed to be of people who once owned a home next to the main entrance of the Uganda National Roads Authority-UNRA Masaka zonal regional offices located in Kijjabwemi B cell, Kimanya-Kabonera division.
Charles Tokon, a resident of Tapac trading center says ever since they filled compensation forms early last year, they have not received any response from the UNRA and yet they promised to compensate them within a period of six months.
Koomu Ignatius Kiwanuka the LC 5 Chairperson of Nakaseke district says that the wooden signposts can serve the required time of two years for accountability and they are not vandalized like metallic signposts.
In the Financial Year, 2021/22 Parliament recommended that the Ministry of Works and Transport be provided with 59 billion for the procurement of road equipment but the funds have not yet been provided.
Harriet Nassuna, a resident of Bbulinda village in Kalisiizo town council in Kyotera district, says that they have been waiting for their compensation for the last three years since the evaluation exercise was conducted.
Katumba is concerned that several roads are spoilt shortly after their construction, largely due to unbecoming social behaviour in the host communities. He says such bylaws should prevent poor disposal of garbage that ends up clogging drainage channels and walkways.
Construction of the road linking to Gulu Logistics Hub has stalled for close to two weeks now after landowners in Wii Layibi village blocked the road works over the government’s failure to compensate them. They also claim that the boundary surveyed and pegged for the road works doesn’t clearly define the road reserve.
The government is set to upgrade the 115 kilometres road linking Kitgum Municipality, through Orom Sub-county to Karenga District from gravel to standard bitumen.
A section of the 61.5 kilometres of the road between Puranga and Acholi-bur have been in a poor state and impassable for motorists for the past two months due to heavy rains being experienced in the region.
Several trucks transporting perishable goods to markets in Gulu, Amuru, West Nile and South Sudan are stuck in Lii, Alero and Kochgoma Sub-Counties in Nwoya District.
Pajule Sub-county Chairperson Brilliant Tito Okello, who is also the Roads Committee chairperson says that many community access and district roads in his area have been heavily devastated by rains. The most affected include Pajule-Amoko lgwai and Acholi bur-lira roads.
Richard Kabuye, the Kalagala Ward B LCII Chairperson in Mpigi town council, says despite the recommendation by the local council youths in the area are contracted to provide casual labor, the companies have hired outsiders.
The possibility of ferry services on the Africa's second deepest lake is a result of a presidential commitment made in 2015, to ease transport across the water body which had become a death trap for travellers whose only means of transport is by boat, to the districts of Kabale and Rubanda in South Western Uganda.
Julius Mpagi, a truck driver who regularly uses the road says the potholes have widened with the increase in rains, which has had largely destroyed the road surface and affecting the pace at which vehicles move.
Andy Zhao, the Deputy Projects Manager of Hunan Roads and Bridge Construction Group Company limited; a firm that was subcontracted to execute the works says they have failed to progress at their planned speed due the heavy flooding of the construction route.
Simon Opiyo, the L.C.II of Amar Parish, Koch –Goma Sub –County in Nwoya District says they have not yet arrested anybody in connection to the vice but that they have recovered on road sign that was vandalize.
The 30 kilometres road which connects Kasensero Town Council and the landing site from Kakuuto trading centre in Kyotera district has since August last year been in a sorry state following the seasonal rains that rendered it almost impassable.
