Roads To Be Complete Before July 9th, Minister Affirms The Minister of Transport and Roads in the Government of Southern Sudan, Anthony Lino Makana has confirmed that the Ministry is working 24 hours, to make sure that the roads under construction are ready for the 9th of July Independence celebrations.18 April 2011 Recently completed dual carriage, linking business centres in Juba [©Gurtong] By Juma John Stephen JUBA, 18th April, 2011 [Gurtong] – The Minister of Transport and Roads in the Government of Southern Sudan, Anthony Lino Makana has confirmed that the Ministry is working 24 hours, to make sure that the roads under construction are ready for the 9th of July Independence celebrations.
According to the Minister, not only roads in Juba will be tarmac but also in other towns of South Sudan. He confirmed to have tarmacked 150 kilometres of roads in North Behr El Ghazal State and they are now preparing to tarmac Rumbek among other major towns. “The roads network under construction in Juba will be finished very soon. We have now finished 80% of the bridges, and we hope to clear the rest by the end of June. All the bridges will be ready and all the roads will be tarmacked,” said the Transport Minister. However, realistically it seemed very difficult to achieve this ambition on the ground as the Minister mentioned, “The tarmac road of Nimule - Juba road is underway to completion as 24 kilometres of the road has already been paved.” Makanya clarified that 17 bridges were under construction in Juba town with support from the Japanese Government and is due completion soon. He also mentioned that the Transport Ministry had a mega plan to complete all the roads in the next five years to come. “We have a plan that we are going to submit to the Council of Ministers very soon, where we are proposing to tarmac 7, 000 kilometres of roads in South Sudan within the next five years, this is our ambition,” Makana added. He added that, “the Juba airport can only accommodate four large planes in the parking area but soon it will accommodate 30 similar planes and up to 50 planes.” The Minister reiterated that there were diverse construction work ongoing at the airport and it will be one of the best airports in the region. He was certain that the constructions will be done before the 9th of July 2011. Posted in: Home -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "JFD info" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/jfdinfo?hl=en.
