The Minister of Finance, on recommendation of the Fund Management Board, has appointed Eng. Naimanye Appointed Acting ED of Uganda Road Fund effective 1st November, 2019. Eng. Naimanye takes over from Dr. Eng. Michael Odongo who has retired after 10years of service since the Fund’s inception in 2010. Eng. Andrew Naimanye, Acting ED of Uganda Road Fund According to section 19 of the URF Act, 2008, the Executive Director shall hold office for five years and is eligible for re-appointment for one more term. Section 17 of the same Act however says that the Executive Director shall be appointed by…
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Uganda Railways Corporation (URC) has embarked on a five year plan to revive the meter gauge railway. Charles Kateeba, the Executive Director, URC, says the US$ 340M plan to revive the meter gauge railway is funded by the European Union (EU). He led a team of URC technical officers to inspect the Jinja Railways station on Tuesday 24th. According to Kateeba, they conducted feasibility studies early this year and identified a contractor to create structural designs for a world class inland container depot at Port Bell. URC owns 1,200 cargo containers, which have remained redundant due to lack of a…
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President Museveni during the meeting with the African Development Bank regional director Gabriel Negattu at State House in Entebbe. President Yoweri Museveni has directed that borrowing of funds for national infrastructure development should only be ascribed to railway construction, electricity generation, irrigation schemes, strategic roads’ building and to some aspects of education and health sectors. Thi was during a Monday, September 16th meeting with the African Development Bank (AfDB) regional director in charge of the Eastern Africa Regional Centre, Gabriel Negattu, at State House in Entebbe. “In the education sector, it is the issue of the government programme for the…
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” The Standard Gauge Railway was adopted in 2014, by the East Africa Presidents who launched the multitrillion project meant to modernise the traditional railway transport system geared towards boosting economic growth by facilitating a faster movement of goods across borders. “ The SGR Coordinator, Canon Perez Wamburu while appearing before the Public Accounts Committee yesterday to respond to audit queries raised in the 2017/2018 audit report that raised concerns over the delays in implementation of the perceived regional railway, he affirmed that Uganda is on schedule for the construction despite compensating only 11% compensation of the project affected persons…
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