M7's meeting with Ed Kisaka yields Fruits - M7 Directs Ministry of Finance to release 6bn to fix Kampala city Potholes.

The President with Kampala Metropolitan leaders including Minister for Kampala Metropolitan Affairs Hajjati Minsa Kabanda, KCCA executive director Dorothy Kisaka and Prime minister Robbina Nabanja after a meeting held at State house Entebbe in feb 2023 
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Just a day after  Deputy Speaker of Parliament, Thomas Tayebwa,  directed the Ministry of Kampala Capital City and Metropolitan Affairs to present a statement on the funding for construction and maintenance for the past three years and the status of roads in the city. The Kampala City council  executive director Dr. Dorothy Kisaka has today held a successful meeting with the head of  the state at state house in Entebbe.

The KCCA Executive Director was at state house Entebbe today 19th April 2023 meeting with H.E.  president, Yoweri Kaguta Museveni and the president directed the Ministry of Finance to release all the outstanding budgets under Uganda  Road Fund amounting to six (6) billion Uganda shillings to fix potholes.

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After receiving this news, ED Kisaka couldn't hide her happiness.

 "Am delighted for the KCCA smart city transformation agenda now that the president has issued a directive for finance to avail us with funds to fix the bad roads in Kampala City." - ED Kisaka.

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KCCA management yesterday 18th April 2023, issued a detailed statement on the state of roads in Kampala City indicating the pothole infested roads and the roads in perfect condition. 

The Executive Director Dorothy Kisaka informed citizens that we cannot trivialise the issue of potholes in the city, its real and needs attention because it affects the well being of road users. Potholes drive up road user costs through frequent vehicle repairs, long travel times, high accident rates, and others 

 She also said that KCCA routinely monitors and collects data on the state of the city roads through the road condition surveys. By December 2022, KCCA had recorded an area of 8,500 Square meters of potholes, spread across the five divisions. 

In December KCCA started to work on the potholes in earnest with the funding that was available. That intervention covered 37 roads, listed below, in five divisions. Kisaka also enumerated another 31 roads which are in perfect condition. 

However, Kisaka said in this final quarter of the financial year, 2022-23, the Government of Uganda has now released the development budget that had been withheld in past quarters. The fixing of the roads is going to commence using the funds availed and cover the potholes as much as the funds can.