Ronald Leonard Egesa

I am greatly disappointed in the city council engineering team in Kawempe Division. There seems to be a general lack of vigilance in the leadership of Kawempe Division and Kampala as a whole. Since the start of the year, I have observed that the state of Sir Apollo Kaggwa Road at the junction with Makerere Hill Road between Makerere College School and Chez Johnson has been terrible and nothing is being done.

In the past five years, I have witnessed three accidents involving deaths at that point and two of them resulted from someone trying to dodge a pothole. The problems in this area stem from the failure to properly drain water and take it off the road surface. I do not think working on this joint would produce a budget deficit for Kawempe Division or Kampala City Council and even if it did, such a deficit would justify the need for more financial support!

Another dangerous point is the pothole just before the roundabout at Kubbiri on Bombo Road. All vehicles and bikes try to squeeze on the narrow section of the road where the tarmac is still intact. This started like a small pothole, but it has eaten up the three quarter width of the road and it will not be long before we see lives lost at this spot.

KCC, it is my humble request that you take it upon yourselves to always fix these small potholes before lives are lost!

Ronald Leonard Egesa,
Kampala
leo@ronaldegesa.com

Published in the Daily Monitor on Monday August 3, 2009