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Africa-Press – Uganda. <\/strong><\/span>Kampala Capital City Authority (KCCA) has embarked on an emergency patchwork to rehabilitate most of the city\u2019s roads to ensure easy traffic mobility ahead of the wholesome construction slated to commence this year.<\/p>\n

According to the KCCA Executive Director, Ms Dorothy Kisaka, the patchwork activities are meant to ensure that the roads are motorable in the meantime.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe KCCA maintenance team has started doing sectional repairs on the potholes as we wait for the overall construction. We have identified all the potholes in the city and they will all be patched to ease the mobility of our people\u201d Ms Kisaka said yesterday while launching the roadworks.<\/p>\n

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She added: \u201cMany people have been asking why we leave our roads to reach such a sorry state. But inadequate resources are still challenging the authority\u2019s performance. This financial year, we were given only Shs10b for road and drainage rehabilitation, we are still lobbying so as to get more money to enable us to keep regular maintenance of the roads.\u201d<\/p>\n

Last year, Monitor published stories exposing the sorry state of roads in the city.<\/p>\n

Ms Kisaka said many of the roads in a sorry state are already listed among those to be constructed under the Shs1 trillion project funded by African Development Bank that will commence in the next month.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have already received $288m (Shs1 trillion) to construct 69km of roads. The roads are going to be wider with drainage, walkways and street lights,\u201d Ms Kisaka said.<\/p>\n

\u201cAll the roads to be constructed are going to be modern which we believe will last for 15-20 years. The good examples of such roads are those that were constructed under the KIDIP 2 project such as Stretcher Road, Kulambiro Road and Kabusu-Bunamwaya road,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n

The KCCA boss also dismissed allegations that the potholes are being patched with soil, saying the material used is a mixer of murram and stone base.<\/p>\n

She added that the authority is working with other agencies such as National Water because most of the potholes are caused by water piping.<\/p>\n

The Kampala Lord Mayor, Mr Erias Lukwago, however, decried the inflated costs in the construction of 69km at Shs1 trillion, saying the government should investigate the project before it commences. \u201cIf 69km of roads are going to be constructed at Shs1 trillion, it means each kilometre is to be constructed at a whopping of Shs14.4b, this is impossible and obscene. Unfortunately, when we raised the matter to the IGG [Inspector General of Government] no step was taken,\u201d Mr Lukwago said.<\/p>\n

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