What is key to Uganda’s poor living?
By Louis Jadwong
Key to our progress is that we fabricate our own culverts, reducing the cost by nearly half despite them being twice better than the ones on the market. They are of international standard, so can take any weight above them. Eng Hussein does it!
We are only 11kms outside city centre but services like proper roads, drainage are yet to get to us – Jomayi Lower Estate, Bunamwaya, Wakiso district. We will not wait…. Our Katale Mayanja LC1 chair Haj Musa Muyingo was our chief guest as we started laying culverts at key points – part of our Vision 2030.
The road that the Lower Jomayi Community is working on will be a key diversion when work intensifies on the Kabuusu, Bunamwaya-Lweza-Kajjansi road. We can do it together – Private-public-partnership!
They do not know what that means until they visit by driving through the degraded swamp heading to our area.
It is time Wakiso District and Kyengera Town Council start thinking of Private Public Partnerships to assist their communities…… They offer equipment, we buy fuel, pay workers. We have our own engineer Lukungu Hussein…enough is enough. We have eaten dust and water for 10 years.
I often see people in the city bragging about their roads flooding…well I will disappoint them and National Environment Management Authority (NEMA) Uganda
We have since moved on, by repairing three entrances to three of our roads in our estate. Two (Road 10 and Road 9) at the start of Road 7 Eng.Hussein Lukungu Road, and the other at Road 4, Emma Sserwada road.
We have done it by mobilizing the community, in total raising sh8million of a budgeted 9 million, but since we are using our own engineers, improvised without compromising standards. We have as a result, got support from as far away at the United States, you can imagine!