The Minister for Works and Transport Hon Fred Byamukama has presented a statement to Parliament on the performance of the Works and Transport Sector.
Minister Byamukama pointed out that Uganda’s total road network is estimated at 158,561km and comprised of 6,405 km of paved national roads, 14,897km of unpaved national roads, 1,211km of paved urban roads, 16,548km of unpaved urban roads.
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Other roads under the Ministry include the 312km paved district roads, 38,041km of unpaved district roads, 954Km of KCCA paved roads, 1,246km of KCCA unpaved roads; and 79,947km of community access roads.
According to Minister Byamukama, Government has allocated Ugx 326 billion out of the estimated annual requirement of Ugx 807 billion to take care of the maintenance of all these paved and unpaved roads on the current National Road Asset, which is estimated at approximately Ugx 26.9 trillion.
The Minister explained that the maintenance funds shall be used to undertake routine maintenance of both paved and unpaved roads, periodic maintenance of aging paved roads and bridge maintenance, emergency interventions following floods, landslides and other natural disasters and drainage improvement and road asset preservation measures.
