Uganda: Work On Shs5 Trillion Jinja Expressway to Start in March

23 January 2016

Kampala — The procurement process for a contractor to build the proposed Kampala-Jinja Expressway will start in March, the Uganda National Roads Authority (UNRA) executive director, Ms Allen Kagina, has said.

Addressing journalists at the Uganda Media Centre on Thursday, Ms Kagina also revealed that the process will go hand-in-hand with sourcing a contractor for the Kampala Southern bypass, a 18km-road stretch that will start at Butabika, on the eastern outskirts of Kampala and connect the new Kampala-Jinja Expressway and Munyonyo--at the new Kampala-Entebbe Expressway, whose construction is already ongoing.

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