Government Delegation Inspects Jur River Bridge A delegation from the national government led by the Minister of Roads and Bridges, Hon. Rebecca Joshua Okwaci on Tuesday arrived Wau to inspect the Jur River Bridge which is at the verge of collapsing.
14 December 2016 Minister of Roads and Bridges, Hon. Rebecca Joshua Okwaci speaking to the press in Wau [Phot by James Dimo] By James Deng Dimo WAU,14 December 2016 [Gurtong] - Jur River Bridge which was built in 1973 started developing technical problems with its poles and piles reported to be rusting since it was constructed by the Sudan Government under late president Jafir Mohamed Nemeri. According to Rebecca Okwaci, the national government’s visit is to inspect the condition of the bridge in order for the ministry to design a rehabilitation plan since a budget has been passed by parliament to see to it that the bridge is repaired. “Today we are in Wau State, we have come as a high level delegation comprising the Minister of Road and Bridges, Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Deputy Minister of Finance and Economic Planning together with engineers and senior members from the three ministries,” said Okwaci. “We are going to go from Wau to Gogrial State and also a second trip will be organized for Lol State and also for Awiel State but here in particular, we have come to see Jur River Bridge. Jur River Bridge is a bridge that is over the Jur River and it was built in 1973. This is a life line bridge and it connects Wau with other States in greater Bahr el Ghazal, it has been there for a very long time and suffered luck of maintenance. Now the report that has been coming to ministry of Road and Bridges is that the bridge has a big problem in its foundation. We have just visited the place, we have seen the foundation which is being talked about and we have seen it practically, we have also learned from a professor who is an expert in bridges and he explained to us that the big challenge of that bridge is that the foundation which is in the middle of the river has now started to disintegrate which has affected the whole bridge because it is the foundation. The technical are talking about what they called piles and these piles have rusted and are disintegrating and when big vehicles are driven on the bridge, it shakes and it is very scary,” she added. Okwaci said that the government is trying its best to avoid a disaster that may occur if the bridge is not fixed.“We don’t have to even wait for another moment for the bridge to collapse, it needs to be maintenance, even the effects of the foundation which is spoiled in the middle of the bridge, it has affected the eastern part of the bridge and some area is also cracked posing a lot of danger to the people and to the vehicles and we don’t want see anything to do with collapse with that bridge,” she said. Okwaci said her team is in greater Bahr e l Ghazal region identifying the challenges on roads and reporting back to the national government in order to avail resource to rescue the road’s conditions. Posted in: Home - See more at: http://gurtong.net/ECM/Editorial/tabid/124/ID/20120/Default.aspx#sthash.GC0MicAB.dpuf -- To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/d/forum/southsudankob View this message at https://groups.google.com/d/msg/southsudankob/topic-id/message-id For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "South Sudan Info - The Kob" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/SouthSudanKob. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/SouthSudanKob/CAJb14opnkfN6bKcLQvBTj3M-gEAqVn2aLtAFTqGD5DEkNyAoaw%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
