Etat des routes : émeute à Jinja – 15 février 2012
Jinja residents demonstrate over dusty road
newvision.co.ug
Feb 16, 2012
By Donald Kiirya
Anti-riot police Wednesday spent hours at Mafubira trading centre, Jinja district, battling enraged residents, who went on rampage over an impassable pot-holed and dusty road.
The Police led by the Jinja district Police commander, Jonathan Musinguzi and South Eastern region Police Commander, Ben Mubangizi, came face-to-face with angry residents armed with hoes, machetes, sticks and knives as they planted banana stems in the Jinja-Kamuli highway.
The residents claim that the road is full of pot holes and dust which has prompted most of their businesses to close down.
The Jinja-Kamuli highway is currently under construction by Dot Services Limited, a construction company which was contracted by government to rehabilitate it.
Residents also accused the contractor of laziness in rehabilitating the road.
The protest started in the morning as residents barricaded the Jinja-Kamuli road and blocked traffic. Vehicles had to use other routes to reach Jinja as those heading to Kamuli had to use the Jinja-Budondo-Mbulamuti route.
They burnt tyres, bushes, and ferried stones which they poured in the middle of the road from Mafubira to Buwenge trading centre making it impassable.
They burnt tyres at Mafubira, Wakitaka, Namulesa, Nakabango, Mutai, Muguluka, Kagoma and Buwenge. Read more…
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