Entebbe, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT & URN | The Entebbe Express Highway was Wednesday morning closed for an hour, as the Police Bomb squad investigated a suspicious package. Traffic flow was however restored an hour later at about 9am, when the suspected metallic substance was taken to Naguru to be …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Taxi operators plying the Entebbe Expressway have regularized their status and formed an association to improve their services and handle common challenges. The operators who use omnibuses popularly known as drones, met the Works and Transport State Minister, Fred Byamukama on Wednesday. Peter Kaggwa, the …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Uganda National Roads Authority-UNRA has maintained that police patrols must pay road toll charges whenever they use the Entebbe Expressway except when responding to emergencies. This follows a crisis meeting convened by Kampala Metropolitan Police Commander, Stephen Tanui in response to numerous complaints lodged …
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Egis Road Operation was in May last year awarded a contract by Uganda National Roads Authority to operate and maintain the 26.2KM Kampala – Entebbe Expressway. It is expected to collect toll fees on behalf of government and provide high quality road management adding value to road users. The …
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Entebbe, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | A Kampala lawyer and motorist, Michael Aboneka who usually plies the Kampala-Entebbe Expressway, has sued the Attorney General and Uganda National Roads Authority-UNRA over the lack of street lights along the road. He filed the case, through Thomas and Michael Advocates, before the Civil …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Justice Wilson Kwesiga has excused himself from a case in which Police Constable Davis Taremwa is accused of killing two people along the Entebbe expressway in 2019. Taremwa was in 2019 charged with two counts of murder over a shooting that claimed two lives of Joshua …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Ugandans do not know how to use expressways, and dual carriageway, implying that it will take a lot for the country to rip the benefits of the huge investment in such infrastructure projects. Several motorists drive from points where they are not supposed to, causing …
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Why the Expressway has not really eased the traffic Kampala, Uganda | JULIAN E. SABIITI | On the face of it, the Kampala-Entebbe Expressway has not lived up to its purpose – so far. Since President Yoweri Museveni officially launched it for public use it has attracted very little traffic. …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Chieftaincy of Military Intelligence –CMI and Joint Anti-Terrorism Task Force –JATT have arrested three prime suspects in the murder of President Yoweri Museveni’s nephew, Joshua Nteireho Rushegera and his female friend, Mellina Tumukunde on the Entebbe Expressway. The duo was gunned down around …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Joint security forces have launched a hunt of unidentified Counter-terrorism – CT policeman suspected to have shot dead two people, Merina Tumukunde and Joshua Ntireho Ruhejera at Entebbe Expressway. A report by police and military teams that arrived at the shooting scene at Nambirigwa …
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