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A report from the Parliamentary Committee on Physical Infrastructure has detailed how the appalling state of major roads, bridges, airfields, and bridges has affected the economic and social development of northern Uganda.

During the first of the planned regional parliamentary sitting in Gulu City yesterday, Mr Tonny Awany, the committee’s vice chairman, also Nwoya MP, tabled before the Parliament the report of the Committee on Physical Infrastructure on the state of transport infrastructure (roads, bridges, airfields, and railways) in northern Uganda.

According to the report, the dilapidating state of key infrastructural facilities, especially bridges and roads, has significantly impacted the economic progress of the region.

For example, the report detailed how the partially closed 60-plus-year-old Karuma Bridge has impacted trade and mobility across the greater northern region.

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