Parliament’s Committee on Public Accounts – Commissions, Statutory Authorities and State Enterprises (COSASE) has asked the Uganda National Roads Authority to explain the cost of the 51-kilometre Kampala-Entebbe Expressway. In a probe over queries raised by the Auditor General, the committee noted that the UGX35 billion per kilometre cost of the tolled expressway looks exorbitant and the roads agency should explain. “How do we justify this to a lay person other than me; if this one is costing UGX35.4 billion per kilometre is a bit high,” said committee chairperson, Joel Ssenyonyi. The road cost US$476 million, approximated to be UGX1.8…
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