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Bidding Uganda And Africa To Asian Countries.President Museveni Backs a Chinese Company Pledging Loan For Construction Of Kampala-Jinja Expressway While MPs Turn Resistant, Citing Irregularities in Source Of The Funding.


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Some Few Years ago, i Wrote another Article, Warning Ugandans that, China is Slowly Turning a Colony To Uganda and Africa.

Many of You did not pay attention.

Just recently, a Chinese Company took a Road Construction Project in Kenya on Conditions that, they (China) will Fund it, Bring Construction Equipments from China, Import Chinese Labourers to come do the Work, And then after that Kenya Shall Begin Paying Back the Loan.

Where is the Value for the Work?

Where is the Value for the Monies We Africans Borrow from these so Called DONORS?.

We shall Grievously Regret if we do not wake up from slumber and stop this insanity.


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President Yoweri Museveni insists no money will be borrowed externally to fund the construction of the already delayed Kampala-Jinja Expressway, stating that there is a Chinese firm that wants to sink in the project its own money and recover it later via road tolls.


“In my earlier letter, I have expressly ruled out external borrowing except for the railway, electricity, controlling the cost of money…, the oil roads, the tourism roads, some aspects of education, some aspects of health and irrigation,” Museveni’s letter of September 18, 2019 to the Minister of Works and Transport, reads in part.


Museveni says he met delegates of a Chinese company by the names of China Railway No.17 and that they are ready to build the road using their own money. “Why then, should we borrow for this road?” He said.


Museveni in his letter invited China Railway No.17 to make their presentations and proposals.


However, MPs from the eastern region have rejected a plan by government to fund the construction of Kampala -Jinja expressway through a Public Private Partnership (PPP). They want government to borrow the funds from the African Development Bank (AfDB) as earlier planned, saying PPP arrangement has many disadvantages compared to borrowing.


The 85-kilometre road was planned to be constructed using funding from a loan from the African AfDB. The expressway is located along Uganda’s Northern Corridor, a strategic route within the region linking Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and South Sudan with Kenya’s Mombasa maritime port.


Raising on a matter of national importance during last Thursday’s sitting, James Waluswaka (Bunyole West County) tasked government to explain the changes and the delayed commencement of works on the road.


“Why are they targeting eastern Uganda where indicators show that we have the worst poverty levels in the country? Is it a deliberate effort to leave the easterners stunted?” said Waluswaka.


Barnabas Tinkasimire (NRM, Buyaga County West) questioned the change and yet signing of the contract with ADB was in the final stages.  “Why are you abandoning ADB and resorting to another source of funding. How has government abandoned an already finished contract to start afresh,” said Tinkasimire.


Jacob Marksons Oboth (Ind. West Budama County South) said that PPP is not a guaranteed source of funding. “If you want construction of an 85-kilometer road to fail, take it to PPP. PPP is still a struggling source of funding,” Oboth said, adding that the current traffic jam was interfering conjugal rights of people staying along that road as they have to wake up early to beat traffic jam.


Jack Wamanga- Wamai termed the change of plans as ‘unfair, saying that whilst roads in other parts of the country are financed using loans, the ones in the Eastern Uganda are not.

“I think we should mobilize the people hailing from the side of the Nile to come and tell Government that this road must be constructed. We must force government to get this loan and work on this road,” Wamanga Wamai said.


Efforts by the Minister of State for Planning, David Bahati to justify the decision to fund the road construction through PPP met resistance from Speaker of Parliament, Rebecca Kadaga and several legislators. “Government is prioritizing construction of the road through the Public Private Partnership,” said Bahati.


Kadaga warned government against the use of PPP, saying that it is a risky investment.

“On this one, I will take off my gloves. You cannot experiment PPP on the east. Everywhere else in the country we have got loans, when it comes to the east, you want PPP. It is unacceptable, we don’t want it,” Kadaga said.



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