Entebbe Municipality Deputy Resident District Commissioner Hakim Kiriggwa expressed his satisfaction with the political unity for development. He highlighted that hunger does not discriminate between supporters of the ruling party and the opposition and that the government's development objectives are intended to improve household incomes.
Stephen John Ajalu, Senior Urban Specialist from the World Bank told URN that if there was no timely monitoring and supervision from the local leaders on the ground shoddy work could have manifested like is the case in some other places they have visited.
In explanation for the city's worrying road status, the Jinja city spokesperson, Rajab Kiito says that the city lacks funds to address the challenge of poor roads, but they have planned to refurbish 3.5 kilometers of roads, at a cost of 16.5 billion Shillings this financial year, through funding from the USMID project.
The City has over the past four phases received 42 Billion Shillings to rehabilitate roads within the central business district. However, leaders argue that the funds are inefficient to construct more roads in the city.
Lugazi is one of the eight municipalities which were selected to benefit from the additional funding for the implementation of the second phase of the World Bank-supported project. The others are Kitgum, Kamuli, Mubende, Kasese, Busia, Ntungamo and Apac.
But officials at Kitgum Municipal Council say that the timeframe for procuring a contractor for the actual implementation of the project in June this year could be dragged behind schedule as a result of measures taken to contain the COVID-19 pandemic.
According to Ogwang, the money will be used to furnish the office, finance the physical planning and urban system development, specialised technical plan and equipment, assess comparative advantages of localities and development of investment profiles.
However, the Municipality is expected to receive an overall total of 34 billion shillings under the 3 years project that will end in the Financial Year 2021/2022
Last year, a private firm, KPMG released a report on the performance of the municipalities. However, during the assessment, it was discovered that Fort Portal lacked a substantive engineer, and was instead using the services of Kabarole District Engineer, Steven Wakatama.
