A Chinese state-owned company, China Railway 17th Bureau Group Company has pledged to partner with a local contractor in the construction of the 95km Kampala – Jinja expressway (KJE). Mr He Ping, the company’s chairman for Africa business led a delegation to President Yoweri Museveni‘s home in Rwakitura and promised to finance the project. “if […]
Government starts temporary repair of the collapsed Cheptui Bridge on Muyembe –Napiripirit Road and to be completed in the next four weeks .This has been disclosed by the minister of state for works General Edward Katumba Wamala while responding to the concern regarding this bridge raised by Bulambuli county MP Alex Burundo in parliament . […]
Former Terego county MP Kasiano Wadri denied claims that he received a bribe from the Uganda national roads authority-UNRA to cover up the Institution corruption scandal while he was a chairperson of the parliamentary public accounts committee since June 2011 to 2013. The commission of inquiry into mismanagement of the Uganda National Roads Authority (UNRA) […]
Buyaga west MP Barnabas Tinkasiimire says that Members of parliament should stop spending sleepless nights looking for how they enter into the pending cabinet since the old ministers will be many in the cabinet. Tinkasimire, speaking to journalists at parliament, said that the majority of NRM members are with high expectations of being ministers and they […]
The Uganda National Roads Authority (UNRA) has directed police to arrest unruly motorists who force their way through the section under UNRA works along Nansana –Busunju road. This follows the residents and users of this road cursing the ongoing road works due to heavy traffic and dust inconveniencing them. Eng. Sam Muhoozi has also requested road […]
Following a fatal accident which happened this morning at Katende along Mpigi – Masaka road claiming lives, the roads body UNRA has come out to attribute the continued accidents along the Katende –Masaka stretch to high speed on the new smooth surface along the route. According to Eng. James Okiror who is the head of maintenance at UNRA, drivers are using very high […]
Uganda National Roads Authority (UNRA) Spokesperson, Dan Alinange has expressed concern over the growing habit of people vandalizing raised road signs along newly constructed high ways. Alinange confirms that road signs along Hoima, Kabale-Kisoro, Malaba, Northern by-pass among others have been vandalized which has increased accidents along those routes as drivers cannot tell what is ahead. The officials at the […]
In a bid to stamp out over loading among transporters on Ugandan roads, the Uganda National Roads Authority is now set to acquire new six weigh bridges to help in taking weights on trucks along Uganda’s roads. According to Eng. Geofrey Obara, the manager axle load control project, the new equipment will be planted on all major high […]
The Uganda National Roads Authority has unveiled a plan for the construction of the Kampala- Entebbe highway which is due to kick off in the next 2 yrs. The Public Relations Officer Dan Alinange says the Authority has already secured a US $ 350m loan from a china Bank for the project. Alinange says the […]
Regional lorry drivers and transporters association have petitioned parliament against the traffic and road safety weighbridges regulations 2010. The Regional Lorry Drivers and Transporters Association chairman Byron Kinene handed over the petition to the deputy speaker Jacob Oulanya . According to the chairperson of the body Byron Kinene the regulations the people found carrying access weight one […]