{UAH} Shs 250bn Kawempe-Kafu road to be redone -the thieves still want another term
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Shs 250bn Kawempe-Kafu road to be redone
Written by ZAHRA ABIGABAThe Commission of inquiry into corruption in the roads sector has heard that the 200km Kawempe-Kafu road is to be redone, although government spent Shs 250bn on its construction.
It emerged yesterday that the auditor general ordered UNRA to have the road redone after finding it to be of poor quality although the works lasted more than 10 years.
The commission, headed by Justice Catherine Bamugemereire, heard that UNRA still needs more money to finish the road yet the road needs to be redone. It was also revealed that the Kawempe-Kafu contractor, Africon, never had design works for the road but went ahead to do the work, which turned out to be poor.
Bruno Musoke, UNRA's former regional manager of operations and project engineer and contracts manager for Kawempe –Kafu road, instructed the contractor to commence business even without a supervising consultant.
Asked why he ordered works to commence without a supervisor, Musoke said: "It was a matter of urgency because the contractor was idle yet the road works needed to start."
The commission also heard that Africon was paid $3.2million (Shs 11.2 bn) for the time its equipment lay idle allegedly awaiting the supervising consultant. However, when the consultant came on board six months later, Africon said it was not ready to start work because it lacked the required materials.
"That's where the confusion comes about, why was UNRA paying Africon when it was not ready to start work?" said Mary Kuteesa, the assistant lead counsel for the commission.
According to the investigation and documents presented to the commission of inquiry on the abuse and mismanagement in UNRA, Africon and Aurecon Amei Limited, another contracted firm, are not registered entities and, therefore, not Ugandan firms but believed to be South African companies.
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God bless this Country, its beyond words. That year and the 25th January should be in our history as black 25th. We are cursed.
These fellows are the worst thing that has ever happened to us as Ugandans and Uganda as a Country.
This story just confuses the public rather than inform. Anyway, blame the education system and the lack of professional journalism in Uganda.
And this Gov't will borrow more money to redo these roads more Gov't officials will then steal from that money and at the end of the day those roads will be just as lousy and we will be deeper in debt.
Okello...the issue is not who the contractors were or the consultants...w hat you fail to see is that a huge amount of money has been spent and the results are rather dismal...furthe r to this I don't see how you blame the education system of Uganda..though a bit lacking it has no bearing on very huge costs the tax payer is burdened with on this very road....in other words use some bit of common sense