Mubuku contractor questionedPublish Date: Sep 27, 2012

By John Thawite

The firm contracted to rehabilitate the dilapidated Mubuku Irrigation Scheme in Kasese district, has come under fire for lagging behind schedule.

COIL Engineering was contracted last year to rehabilitate the 2,000-hectare ailing scheme at a sh19b. The monies were a loan which the Government had secured from the African Development Bank, (AfDB).

The works, which started in September, last year, were scheduled to be completed this month.

According to the project document, works include water training, water diversions, construction of dams and water canals (15km), drainage, roads, construction of culverts and foot bridges, a cattle trough and ramp, water dropping points, off takes, pipeline, and grading farmland.

But while touring the scheme last Friday, a team of AfDB and government officials were treated to a rude shock to learn that up to 40% of the works were still incomplete.

This led to the Project manager, Tsegay Teklemariam and the firm’s consultant, Frank Kiwanuka to be questioned.

The monitoring team included the AfDB task manager, Sebastian Okeke, the director in charge of President Museveni’s manifesto, Fred Kamugira and the water and environment ministry’s water management and irrigation expert, Dr. Gamal Elkassar.

In his defence, Kiwanuka unconvincingly attributed the delay on rains.


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