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At least Shs1.6 billion will be spent on rehabilitating 13.4km Kashasha-Ihunga road in Rubanda District, local government officials have said after securing support from an American development partner.

Local government officials said they had secured support from International Fertilizer Development Center (IFDC) under Bright Project to rehabilitate the road to ease transport and enable farmers transport their agricultural produce to markets.

While presiding over the ground breaking ceremony on Thursday, the district LCV chairman, Mr Stephen Kasyaba said each partner is expected to contribute 50 percent of the project cost, adding that the district has already allocated Shs300 million as commitment fee as required by their IFDC partners, a non-profit, public international organization that was established in 1974 with its headquarters in Muscle Shoals Alabama in the United States of America.

“We are grateful to IFDC for the several road projects they have rehabilitated in our district with an aim of enabling farmers in the rural areas to transport their produce to market centers. Once this road rehabilitation programme is complete we shall lobby the government to extend it to Bwindi national park to promote tourism in this area,” Mr Kasyaba said.

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