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The road is impassable due to many potholes and clogged drainage. Motorists stopped using the road to and from Nyakishenyi last year when Karukonjo Bridge was swept away by running waters.
The sorry state of the Kisiizi-Nyakishenyi road in Rubabo County Rukungiri district has angered residents. The 25-kilometer road connects Nyakishenyi Sub County to Kisiizi health center III, Kisiizi hospital, Kisiizi town board in Nyarushanje Sub County.
However, the road is impassable due to many potholes and clogged drainage. Motorists stopped using the road to and from Nyakishenyi last year when Karukonjo Bridge was swept away by floods.
Scovia Kyomukama, a resident of Rwengongo village, says that due to the state of the road, they are forced to carry patients on stretchers while rushing them to Kisiizi health Centre III and Kisiizi hospital.
//Cue in: "orukuuto orutindo rukahwaho…
Cue out: …oru rukuuto."//.
Sebestiano Byebiroha, the Rwengongo LC1 chairperson in Kisiizi parish, says that none of their district leaders seem to show concern over the road, despite their repeated appeals. He explains that farmers have stopped transporting agricultural products to markets.
//Cue in: "eeeh abantu hati …
Cue out: …mutuhe obuyambi."//
Swaib Lamanzan Kyarimpa, a boda-boda cyclist at Kisiizi Upper State says that the sorry state of the road and the collapse of Karukonjo Bridge have crippled business. Kyarimpa says that even other alternative roads to Nyakishenyi are in a sorry state.
//Cue in "omutunga gukahatwaara orukuuto…
Cue out: …hati kyigumire."//.
Andrewson Kateebire, the LCV Chairperson Rukungiri says that they are mobilizing funds to make sure that the road is worked on soon. He, however, did not specify the period when the works will commence.
//Cue in: "that road it…
Cue out: …be patient."//
However, the road is impassable due to many potholes and clogged drainage. Motorists stopped using the road to and from Nyakishenyi last year when Karukonjo Bridge was swept away by floods.
Scovia Kyomukama, a resident of Rwengongo village, says that due to the state of the road, they are forced to carry patients on stretchers while rushing them to Kisiizi health Centre III and Kisiizi hospital.
//Cue in: "orukuuto orutindo rukahwaho…
Cue out: …oru rukuuto."//.
Sebestiano Byebiroha, the Rwengongo LC1 chairperson in Kisiizi parish, says that none of their district leaders seem to show concern over the road, despite their repeated appeals. He explains that farmers have stopped transporting agricultural products to markets.
//Cue in: "eeeh abantu hati …
Cue out: …mutuhe obuyambi."//
Swaib Lamanzan Kyarimpa, a boda-boda cyclist at Kisiizi Upper State says that the sorry state of the road and the collapse of Karukonjo Bridge have crippled business. Kyarimpa says that even other alternative roads to Nyakishenyi are in a sorry state.
//Cue in "omutunga gukahatwaara orukuuto…
Cue out: …hati kyigumire."//.
Andrewson Kateebire, the LCV Chairperson Rukungiri says that they are mobilizing funds to make sure that the road is worked on soon. He, however, did not specify the period when the works will commence.
//Cue in: "that road it…
Cue out: …be patient."//
