RESIDENTS CONCERNED OVER QUALITY OF MATERIAL USED ON MVARA OCIBA DADAMU OMBACI ROAD IN ARUA CITY
A section of Mvara Ociba Dadamu Ombaci road where the marram has been applied. Photo by Morish Dramadri
By Morish Dramadri
Arua city
Community members along Mvara Ociba Dadamu Ombaci road in Arua city have raised concern over the quality of materials used by the city engineering department in rehabilitating the road.
The 5km Mvara Ociba Dadamu Ombaci road has been under rehabilitation since its launch in June this year, with stone pitching, upgrade to first class marram as its major components.
William Ojaku one of the road user claimed that the contractor of the project seems unbothered about the road work. “The problem I have gotten on this road is that the contractor is unbothered. Sometimes the boda boda riders here suffer during rains with their customers too much. We are appealing that the road be worked on better, because on rainy days, even the pedestrians suffer a lot here,” Ojaku noted.
The 320 million shillings rehabilitation works of Mvara Ociba Dadamu Ombaci road was expected to be completed within two months following its launch in June this year.
One of the resident of Anyifio ward in central division, only identified as Agani criticized that the contractor is incompetent and the work has not impacted on the quality of the road. “As the community around we are not really happy and satisfied of the work that has been done, the contractors that have been chosen have shown incompetence in the work they have done because the work has been sluggish and poor in quality, the quality of the materials they have been using has been of low grade, it has not been good and it has not in any way improve on the quality of the road itself,” Agani complaint.
Equally Acidri Ephraim the former councilor of Mvara ward said, “That is like a soil they have been digging from an ant hill but that is no not marram, even if you see it there, it is not marram,” Ephraim claimed.
Meanwhile Hon. Godfrey Anguyo the male city councilor for Ayivu north divulged that the quality of the marram is not bad according to the engineer’s report to the city works committee.
“Some people are complaining that the quality of that marram is bad, I raised their complaint to the city engineer, they assured the works committee that, that marram was tested in the national laboratory of ministry of works, they approved that marram for use, we also went and studied that marram and I don’t know which parameters the people who are complaining have used to disapprove the marram, the only problem we noted there was that they did not combat it,” Hon. Anguyo disclosed.
The rehabilitation of Mvara Ociba Dadamu Ombaci road is under the one billion shillings government road fund.
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