LONG AWAITED L. BUYONYI FERRY IN FINAL STAGES

By Grant Ahumuza

www.mknewslink.com

In Kabale—

uganda national roads authority (UNRA) official in department of ferries and planning have toured Kabale and Rubanda districts  to access the suggested landing sites around lake Bunyonyi.
During presidential campaigns in 2015, president Museveni pledged to provide a ferry at Lake Bunyonyi in order to ease transport across the lake which had become a death trap for communities across the lake.
In august 2016, five members of the same family drowned in Lake Bunyonyi while traveling in a canoe from a party in Mushebeya, Kamugangunzi Sub County, to their home in Kabirago Ndarura village, Rubaya Sub County.
A 25-year-old woman and her 11-month-old baby in november, 2017 also drowned when the dugout canoe they were sailing in capsized in the middle of lake bunyonyi, as they crossed to attend a burial of their relative.
In March 2019 the government of uganda secured us $18m for the construction of the 8km kabale-lake bunyonyi road and purchase of a ferry that will be transporting people across the lake.
However, the kabale district resident commissioner (RDC), Darius Nandinda told www.mknewslink.com  that officials from Uganda national roads authority are on the ground accessing  all suggested and possible landing sites of the long waited ferry at lake bunyonyi.

Nandinda also re-assured residents living on shores of Lake Bunyonyi that the government is in final stages to provide a ferry for travellers across Africa’s second deepest lake.

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