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Gulu gets Shs25 billion grant for roads
A drainage channel under construction in Gulu Town. PHOTO BY JULIUS OCUNGI
GULU.
Gulu Municipality administration has received a Shs25 billion grant from World Bank to undertake infrastructural development towards attaining city status.
The grant was received under the Uganda Support to Municipal Infrastructure Development Programme (USMID).
Mr George Labeja, the Gulu mayor, told Saturday Monitor on Thursday that the municipality performed well in infrastructural development in the last financial year, which impressed the World Bank to provide further funding.
He said officials from the World Bank had carried out an assessment on the past grant to the municipality for construction of 3km roads within the town.
“At the moment we have made vast plans to develop the municipality’s infrastructure. In two weeks the money will be wired to the municipality’s accounts and we shall use it to install more street lights, construct a modern abattoir and a bus park,” said Mr Labeja. He said part of the money will go to fixing drainage, education and health.
