70 Percent of potholes on Kampala Roads have been worked on
During a conversation with the members of the Parliamentary Committee on Commissions, Statutory Authorities, and State Enterprises, the Executive Director of Kampala Capital City (KCCA) Dorothy Kisaka revealed that 70 percent of the city’s potholes have been effectively repaired. She promised that all Kampala roads would be free of potholes by the end of this month.
According to the Executive Director of Kampala Capital City (KCCA) Dorothy Kisaka, 70 percent of the city’s potholes have been effectively repaired. She revealed this information during a conversation with the members of the Parliamentary Committee on Commissions, Statutory Authorities, and State Enterprises.
She promised that all Kampala roads would be free of potholes by the end of June. She further highlighted that while there are many issues in the city that need to be resolved, the authority is now concentrating on repairing potholes rather than performing sectional repairs or extensive renovations.
“We have aggressively responded with regard to the resources that were given to our engineers in the five divisions and have done a good work and there is a big progress,” she said.
Eng. Justus Akankwasa, the director of Engineering and Technical Services at KCCA also informed the member of COSASE that Uganda Road Fund for this Financial Year received Shs 29 billion and upon receiving it, an aggressive program was drafted that has been followed to date.
“We are supposed to cover 13500 square meters of potholes and then do sectional repairs of around 33000 square meters. Immediately we launched that program, and every division was up in arms to seal these potholes. We should have concluded today with the pothole ceiling but because of the rainy season, we have not. But out of what we had targeted we are now at 70 per cent and we believe by the end of this month we would have covered most of the potholes in the city,” he said.
Regarding sectional repairs, however, Eng. Akankwasa stated that KCCA has not yet begun and that they are merely awaiting the approval of framework contracts. Additionally, such contracts will be approved this week, according to Akankwasa. I want to reassure Ugandans that KCCA is actively tackling the pothole problem and that we will have repaired every pothole by the end of this month.
The 6th, 7th, and 8th Streets, Apollo Kagwa Road, among others, as well as Old Port Bell Road are some of the roads with potholes that have not been repaired because they have been given to contractors for overhaul construction and refurbishment.
Currently, only 646km (30%) of Kampala City’s 2,100km total road network are paved roads. The length of the road networks in each of Kampala’s divisions is as follows: Central has 178 km; Nakawa (539 km); Lubaga (464 km); Makindye (502 km); and Kawempe (428 km). It is important to remember that most paved roads have lasted much longer than the recommended 20 years.
The administration has so far patched 94 roads in Kampala’s five divisions. These make up around 25% of Kampala’s highways. Nakawa (14 roads), Rubaga (18 roads), Makindye (29 roads), Kawempe (14 roads), and Kampala Central (20 roads) are the divisions.
