FORT PORTAL BENEFITS UNDER UGANDA SUPPORT TO MUNICIPAL INFRASTRUCTURE DEVELOPMENT -USMID DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM

Fort Portal Municipal Council  is to benefit from the 150,000,000U$ that the government of Uganda got from the World Bank to work on infrastructure under the Uganda Support to Municipal Infrastructure development-USMID in the 14 Municipalities. Fort Portal was allocated 10,000,000U$ which is equivalent to about 26,500,000,000UGX. While featuring on the Voice Of Tooro  fm in Fort Portal,  the town clerk F/Portal Municipality Lwanga Edward said under the 5 year project, they will work on Mugunu lorry/Bus park among others as well as Kaboyo, Rukidi III and Nyakaana roads and Kabundaire abattoir (Rufura) located in Kabundaire West division. The town clerk says the development program will get underway in the next Financial year 2013/14 which begins in July 2013. Two officials from the Ministry of Lands Housing and Urban development Miriam Kiconco and Rosemary Mukite said the government got funding from the World Bank to improve on infrastructure in the major towns in the Country as one way of catering for the increasing population growth due to Rural-Urban migration but hastened to add they will in future extend such development to other townships like the the town council and town boards.
 The program has a component of the citizens to act as watch dog under the municipal development Forum which is headed by Engineer David Baguma Mwesige as President.Engineer Mwesige who was also on the radio talk show together with the deputy mayor Margaret Kihika Abwooli, urged the people to get involved in the development plan by coming up with more ideas in order to be part and parcel of the development program. The host/moderator of the program Abbooki Bamanyisa aka Ambassador asked the town clerk about the lack of streetlights in Fort Portal which has been a security threat following an incident in which a gun man shot and injured a Man in his Mobile Money kiosk at around 8pm one year ago. Both the deputy mayor and the Town Clerk admitted that the town lacks street lights but stressed that First things first and that the road network takes first priority. The host asked the town clerk if part of the money could be used to resume construction of  Fort Portal Municipal Council chambers(hqtr)? The chambers or building has stalled after completing the foundation with 600,000,000UGX resources from disposal of the Municipal Council Social hall and the dilapidated former town clerk residential house in Boma#