Deputy Speaker Thomas Tayebwa Demands For Kampala road Funds Accountability

The Deputy Speaker of Parliament Rt. Hon. Thomas Tayebwa has coordinated the minister for Kampala Capital City Authority and Metropolitan affairs, Hon. Hajjat Minsa Kabanda to make a indictment  on how much cash the Kampala Capital City Authority has gotten for road development and maintenance throughout the previous 3 years, which roads were built and maintained  utilizing the funds and the ongoing status of every road.

While Leading the meeting on Tuesday April eighteenth 2023, deputy Speaker said he has gotten complaints from the individuals about the critical state of Ugandan roads and what they are presently affecting for the lives of the residents.
“We have potholes of each and every design,  size, beauty, ugly,  shallow, wide and narrow. They are all in Kampala.” said Rt Hon. Tayebwa.
“Hon. Linos came to me grumbling that a few men arent  functioning appropriately in light of the fact that their backs are broken due to potholes. Hon. Cecilia let me know that the ladies are delivering prematurely  due to the potholes.” Hon. Tayebwa added

On Monday, April seventeenth 2023, Ugandans drove by a famous illustrator Dr. Tower Ssentongo raged social media especially on Twitter and Facebook and uncovered the poor roads in Uganda’s Capital in a mission named Kampala Pothole Show in protest of the terrible condition of roads in Kampala.
A portion of the photographs posted by protestors on tweeter

With more than 14,000 tweets, Ugandans tagged all the public authority specialists associated with roads works including the ministry of Works and Transport, the Kampala Capital City Authority, Uganda National Roads Authority, KCCA directors and the Lord Mayor, and requested a legitimate Audit of the funds associated For road maintenance in the city.
KCCA is blamed for mentioning for huge sums of cash for road upkeep and repairs each  year yet neglect to fix the potholes which have caused a great deal of traffic in the city, vast Accidents etc
This constrained the Kampala Capital City Authority Executive director on Tuesday evening, to give an statement on ‘the state of Kampala City roads and what  KCCA is doing to improve what is happening,.

Executive Director of KCCA Dorothy kisaka

While tending to the Press at City hall in Kampala,  Ms. Doroth Kisaka said KCCA, regularly screens and gathers information on the condition of the City roads through what they call road  surveys and makes plans to fix bad roads in light of available funds, the essential source being the Uganda road fund.
“We can’t downplay the issue of potholes on our streets. KCCA knows that potholes drive up road user costs through multiple vehicle repairs, long travel times, high Accidental rates, etc. Kampala City has an all out road network of 2,100KM, of which just 30% are paved while the rest (70%) are unpaved or earth roafs. It is important that the vast majority of our cleared roads have served a long way past their full life expectancy of twenty years.” Ms. Kisaka said.

She noticed that these roads are due for reconstruction, which makes sense of the great predominance of potholes and other road damages.