THE Ministry of Works, Transport and Communication has set aside funds in the 2016/17 budget to rehabilitate road and bridge infrastructures in different district councils destroyed by the ongoing rains.
The remarks were made here by deputy
minister, Engineer Edwin Ngonyani, when responding to supplementary
questions from Mr Marwa Chacha (Serengeti – Chadema) and Ms Wanne
Mchemba (Special Seats – CCM).
Mr Chacha wanted to know if the
government was ready to rehabilitate road and bridge infrastructures
destroyed in the ongoing rains, while Mchemba wanted to know if the
government was ready to repair road sections destroyed by rains in
Tabora region.
“The ongoing rains have destroyed a lot
of road infrastructures in Tabora region to the point that they are not
passable….is the government ready to repair those sections so that the
public can use the roads?” Mchemba asked.
She also wanted to know when
construction of the Chaya-Tabora and Urambo-Kauliya road will be
completed. In his response Eng Ngonyani assured the legislators that the
government has received the requests and will work on them to ensure
the infrastructures destroyed by ongoing rains are rehabilitated.
He added that once the ministry’s budget
is endorsed the challenges facing public in those areas will be
addressed, taking into consideration that the road fund’s 30 percent for
every district council cannot carter for the rehabilitation works
needed for the damaged roads and bridges.
The deputy minister said the
government’s plan is to link Singida, Tabora and Kigoma with tarmac
road, adding that already upgrading to tarmac levels of the
Manyoni-Itigi-Chaya (89.3 km), Tabora-Ndono ( 42km), Kigoma-Kidahwe
(28km), Kidahwe-Uvinza ( 76.6km) and Malagarasi bridge together with
48km linking roads has been completed.
Earlier Mr Shaaban Shekilindi (Lushoto -
CCM) wanted to know when the government will upgrade the
Mlalo-Makanya-Mlingano-Mashewa road and place it under the Tanzania Road
Agency (TANROADS).
Eng Ngonyani said his ministry is
working on the requests to upgrade the Mlalo-Makanya-Mlingano-Mashewa
road to make it a regional road, together with others countrywide
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