The government has directed the Ministry of Works and Transport to complete all pending works on roads it inherited from the Uganda National Roads Authority (UNRA).
The prime minister, Robinah Nabbanja, gave the order in parliament during a plenary sitting chaired by the speaker, Jacob Marksons Oboth-Oboth.
She was responding to a series of questions raised by several MPs.
“Under Article 108, and in the powers vested in me, I direct the works ministry to fix all those road deficits,” Nabbanja said.
Solomon Silwany, the MP for Bukooli Central had complained that a road once under UNRA in his area had never been worked on.
Silwany said that fixing the road would improve transport and boost the local economy.
Nabbanja asked him to put his request in writing so that she could act on it.
Meanwhile, Geofrey Wokuri, the MP for Bungokho South, asked the Office of the Prime Minister to help Mbale with garbage trucks. He said waste management in the area was very poor.
Nabbanja reminded him and other MPs that the national cleaning day was now a nationwide policy.
She said the government would soon push for a statutory instrument. Under it, every stakeholder would be expected to play a part in carrying out the policy.
Agnes Ameede, the Butebo Woman MP, raised deep concern about children who had died after being given the wrong medicine.
Nabbanja blamed the problem on poor storage of medicines and vaccines. She asked the health ministry to visit the affected communities.
Ameede also asked the government to pay compassionate honoraria to the affected families. She said the children were also going hungry because of poor harvests and the effects of climate change.
Brian Kyapagon, the MP for Kongasis County, asked for food relief after recent hailstorms destroyed gardens and homes in his area.
Nabbanja promised to consider the Sebei sub-region once the government had finished with the Bugisu sub-region.
