KCCA Director, Kisaka inspects City roads (Sir Appolo kaggwa & Portbell) as reconstruction work kicks off.

 

The Kampala City Road Reconstruction Project is on course as promised by City executive Director, Kisaka Dorothy.

The forward maintenance by the contractors has started for Lot 3 which includes Sir Apollo Kaggwa Road, 5th Street, 6th Street, 7th Street, 8th Street, Suuna 1 and 2, Muzito Road, Gaba Road junction and Queens Way. 

A commencement order issues after signing the contract signing for Design Review & Construction Supervision. 

The  necessary plant, equipment, and obtaining the necessary permits and statutory approvals follows.

Inspecting the Lot 3 Roads today, Kisaka was flunked by the LC-1 Chairman of Sir Apollo Kaggwa Road who assured the contractors that the residents are anxiously waiting for the works to commence.

While speaking to Journalists, the executive Director reveled that the roads being reconstructed are extra ordinary and in this case the cost or budget differs from the previous ones. 

"I want to assure Ugandans that these roads are going to have the best modern  drainage system, pavements, toilet and others with market points. We are also widening the these road  and this will reduce jam" - Kisaka.

ED. kisaka further thanked the residents staying Along sir Apollo kaggwa for cooperating and voluntarily accepting to surrender part of their land for road widening.

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Kampala Capital City Authority had last year listed 31 roads in various parts of the city that were set to be reconstructed starting February next year.

According to the list released by KCCA, the roads are will be in the five divisions of Central, Kawempe, Lubaga, Nakawa and Makindye that make up Uganda’s capital.

KCCA spokesperson, Simon Kasyate explained that they received a $288m (Shs1 trillion) from the African Development Bank (ADB)and the African Development Fund to implement  the road rehabilitation activities in the City under the Kampala City Roads Rehabilitation Project (KCRRP).

“This project is aimed at increasing the stock and quality of the City’s strategic infrastructure to accelerate Uganda’s competitiveness. This is against the background that Kampala requires significant infrastructural investments to shore up its productivity and ease of doing business,” Kasyate said.

According to Kasyate, the fifth(0.8km), sixth(1.95km), seventh(1.86km), and eight(2.73km) streets in Industrial Area are among the 31 roads lined up for reconstruction after a contract was signed with China Railway 18th Bureau Group Co. Ltd.

The 8.5km Salaama road in Makindye division is also part of the 31 roads lined up for reconstruction starting February.

He explained that the reconstruction project has divided the roads  into five lots with all, but lot four having concluded the procurement and  deployment of the contractor on sites shall be by end year.

However, despite the reconstruction , other roads will continue being in the dire state but the KCCA spokesperson explained that due to limited funds, they had to prioritise.

“If you have problems worth shs 10million and  you get shs4 million, reasonably you will prioritise  as you wait for balance of shs6 million and hope you don’t get more problems needing more money.  What is of essence is at least KCCA went into rehabilitating some roads because  could have diverted the money to schools or health centers which are also in dire need,” Kasyate said.