Mackline Tushabe, a resident of Katafari cell says that because of the poor road pedestrians, Boda boda riders and vehicles have encroached on her millet garden as they try to evade the potholes.
Heavy rains have washed away about five Kilometers of the road that connects three villages in Kicuuzi
Sub County in Ibanda district.
The
road links Kabegaramire-Katafari-Kitagwenda villages.
The residents say that they are currently unable to access markets because
of the unmotorable roads.
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Mackline Tushabe, a resident of Katafari cell says that because of the poor road pedestrians, Boda boda
riders and vehicles have encroached on her millet garden as they try to evade the potholes.
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Dennis Baheebwa, the Kicuuzi Sub County councillor, says the
condition of the road is beyond their means.
He says that they have written to the district for intervention.
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Baheebwa says that they also
face the problem of people who own plots
on the roadsides and road reserves
who stop them from collecting soil to fill the potholes.
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Happy Mayanja, Ibanda District LC V
Chairperson, says that they
are aware of the sorry state of roads
since many have been destroyed by the ongoing rains.
He says that they have started designing a program on how to deploy road equipment to rehabilitate the roads.
He, however, says that they receive
little money under the
road fund noting they have received Shillings
54 million in the
last quarter of this
financial year to work on 15 kilometres.
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The Ibanda
District Engineer, Mishaki
Ayebazibwe declined to comment on
the matter.ment.
