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Residents and local leaders of Kyaruyenje Parish, Buhunga Subcounty, are demanding government intervention on the Mugamba–Nyamiyaga–Kacence road as well as the leveling of Kijengye Bridge.
These remarks were made on Satruday during a communal work exercise on Kijengye Bridge, which has been in a sorry state for a long time. Although they received six culverts from Gen. Jim Muhwezi, their area MP, and Annah Niwugaba, who contested for the Woman Member of Parliament for Rukungiri District, they failed to get funds to insert them and resorted to soliciting small contributions among themselves to have the bridge constructed.
Speaking during the exercise, the area councilors of Kyaruyenje Parish, Medius Sunday Nshemelirwe and Ahabu Ndyamuhakyi, told our reporter that this bridge and the road connect the three cells of Mugamba, Nyamiyaga, and Kacence and have been in a sorry state for some time until they took the initiative as councilors to mobilize their people and have it worked on.
They thanked the people for actively participating in the communal exercise and called upon the government to provide them with a grader to level the road and ease transportation in their area.
Molly Kengazi, a resident of Kyaruyenje Parish, and Moses Twinamatsiko (Tycoon), with a lot of excitement, applauded their area councilors and the Chairperson LC3, Aunt Mugisha, for all their efforts in working on Kijengye Bridge. They said its poor state had made transportation difficult and caused great worry for their children crossing to different schools in the area.
They further called for more government support, noting that although the road is neither a subcounty nor a district road, the government should at least provide a grader once in a while to make the road passable for users, including pedestrians and Boda Boda riders.
A Boda Boda rider operating on this very road, Allan Muhoozi (Salongo), applauded the good work done by their area councilors and the well-wishers who provided the culverts. However, he emphasized that a lot more still needs to be done, including getting a tractor to level the road and placing murram on the bridge to withstand water and ease transportation.
He called upon the district leadership to help address this issue, noting that the road is used by many people transporting goods to markets, pregnant women and sick people going to hospitals, and school-going children. He said that once the road is worked on, people will be able to develop themselves in one way or another.
Chairperson LC3 Buhunga Subcounty, Aunt Benon Mugisha, applauded the residents of Kyaruyenje Parish for the good work done on Kijengye Bridge, acknowledging that transportation has been very difficult for them. She thanked those who provided the culverts and appealed to the district for a tractor to work on the road, saying that although they do communal work, they cannot level the road using only hoes and spades.
Mugisha further appealed to other parishes in Buhunga Subcounty to emulate this good gesture of communal work to keep their roads passable.
