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By Steven Ariong
Traveling from Kampala to Moroto via Mbale, Bulambuli to Nakapiripirit is currently cut off after flash floods washed away Chepakunya bridge which is under construction by M/s Polat Yol Yapi Sanayi Ve Ticaret.
Travelers who left Amudat district on Sunday to Mbale are still trapped up on the road as the rains continued pounding the area. The floods have also destroyed hundreds of maize gardens in Ngenge sub county in Kween district.
Joyce Cherop one of the travelers told this website that the bridge filled up and the water volume kept on increasing forcing them the sleep inside the taxi.
“Mosquitos are many and most women are moving with children we don’t know what will happen”-Cherop said.
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Moses Lokut another traveler blamed the floods on the slow works by the contractor on the road saying they would have finished working on the major bridges by now. This website has learnt that most of the community access roads including those that DINU project injected billions on have been destroyed and many of them can’t be used.
This is not the first time heavy rains are causing floods in Karamoja, in every year whenever the rainy season comes, the region experiences heavy downfall that turn to be destructive.
Last year many farmers failed to realize any crop harvest after several of their gardens got flooded and crops washed away by flash floods. So farther only best route to connect to Nakapiripirit to Amudat and Moroto is Mbale,Soroti,Katakwi,Napak to Moroto to Nakapiripirit.
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