Regional Development: Leaders demand for fast rehabilitation of roads
LIRA – Leaders in the three-sub region of West Nile, Acholi and Lango, have called on the government to fast track its commitment on rehabilitating and opening access roads within the northern region if efforts to fight poverty and spur development are to take shape.
The three sub-regions in northern Uganda border the country with South Sudan, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Central African Republic, which present great business and investment opportunities both within and without the region.
Williams Anyama, the Moyo District LCV Chairperson, who also doubles as the Chairperson of the LCV Chairperson and Mayors Association of West Nile says, the government over a decade ago committed to rehabilitate and open roads within the sub-region, which roads would be used to ease communication, business, and access to social services.
Some of the roads which he claims the government had committed to rehabilitate include the Nebbi-Goli-Vura-Laropi road, Panymur-Panyango-Obongi-to Dufule, Kuli kulinga-Adjumani-Obongi road among others.
These roads connect the South and North West Nile districts to neighboring South Sudan and the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Anyama notes citing the Goli-Vura road which has two Uganda Revenue Authority [URA] customs, major sources of income to the government yet the road continues to be in sorry state.
According to Anyama, the government is seemingly failing to carefully choose its priorities when it comes to regional development.
“One would wonder why roads which connect sub-regions, districts and the country to other countries continue to be in a sorry state yet they are the major drivers of businesses. I think government has a problem in choosing its priorities when it comes to regional development”, Anyama notes.
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