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President Museveni has ordered Uganda Wildlife Authority (UWA) to waive charges of up to Shs200, 000 imposed on non-tourist travelers transiting through Murchison Falls National Park to connect to and from northern Uganda, following the closure of the main Karuma Bridge route.

“On the use of the park by the people who are travelling to and from northern Uganda during the time of the closure of the Karuma Bridge, I totally forbid the charging of money from travellers who are not tourists. It’s nonsensical. It’s not correct,” Museveni told the ruling National Resistance Movement (NRM) party’s parliamentary caucus at State House in Entebbe on Friday.

Karuma Bridge was shut to allow its ongoing reconstruction, a development implying that travellers would have to use the road through the national park as an alternative route.

Museveni’s order was at the request of government whip Denis Hamson Obua, who is also the lawmaker of Ajuri County in Alebtong District.

Travellers from Kampala to West Nile and vice versa can now comfortably use the River Kafu to Masindi-Paraa-Pakwach route and connect to their respective destinations.

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