Joyful
residents of Moroto Municipality are optimistic that with the infrastructural
development by World Bank under its initiative the Uganda support to Municipal
Infrastructure development –USMID the town will be more beautified by the time
it acquires its city status next year.
The municipal council
received over three billion shillings, as an additional funding for the
purchase of 320 superior led street lights towards the end of last year.
So far installation
works have begun along the Independence Avenue and others include Circular –
Lorika, Adyebo, Narwosi and Mount Moroto access.
Others are, Bishop
Lomongin, the bus terminal and the Moroto Municipality access roads.
The works are being undertaken
by relief line-Uganda limited.
Residents and local leaders
say the project will change the face of the town and will also enhance the
night economy and also provide sustainable security to the town dwellers,
visitors and the business community.
James Ilukol, a
resident of Camp Swahili the commercial hub of Moroto town says the lights will
benefit many hardworking people.
Another business
entrepreneur Deno Barasa in the same locality says the biggest barrier has been
insecurity in town due to shadows of darkness.
On Monday, a team from
Moroto Municipality led by the Mayor and the town clerk and the contractor
among others conducted a joint inspection in the progress of the project.
Moroto Municipality
Mayor Ismail Mohamed congratulated the World Bank for standing together with
the council to launch development in one of Uganda’s oldest town.
Mohammed says the
street lights will enhance the night economy that had collapsed over the years
due to chronic insecurity in town.
He encouraged residents
to take up the mantle to fight poverty at the household.
The town clerk Moroto
Richard Eyaru says the street light project is a blessing in disguise for the
residents interested in improving their lives.
Eyaru describes the
move as enhancing infrastructure development asking the public to embrace the
development by resisting vandalism.