{"id":24118,"date":"2016-10-06T06:03:24","date_gmt":"2016-10-06T06:03:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kfm.co.ug\/?p=24118"},"modified":"2016-10-06T06:03:24","modified_gmt":"2016-10-06T06:03:24","slug":"govt-seeks-309-billion-for-busefa-mpigi-expressway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/govt-seeks-309-billion-for-busefa-mpigi-expressway\/","title":{"rendered":"Govt seeks 309 billion for Busefa-Mpigi Expressway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Government is seeking parliamentary approval of 91 million dollars (about 309 billion shillings) as loan from the African Development Bank to finance the final construction of Busega-Mpigi Express High Way.<\/p>\n<p>Works State Minister Aggrey Bagiire while appearing before parliament\u2019s committee on National Economy said that that the money will be managed well for adequate implementation of a four lane carrier.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Bagiire says the project upon completion will reduce the heavy traffic flow along the Kampala-Northern bypass.<\/p>\n<p>However Syda Bumba, the Committee Chair has expressed concerns with the frequent use of foreign contractors while denying local companies such opportunities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Government is seeking parliamentary approval of 91 million dollars (about 309 billion shillings) as loan from the African Development Bank to finance the final construction of Busega-Mpigi Express High Way. Works State Minister Aggrey Bagiire while appearing before parliament\u2019s committee on National Economy said that that the money will be managed well for adequate implementation of a four lane carrier. Mr Bagiire says the project upon completion will reduce the heavy traffic flow along the Kampala-Northern bypass. However Syda Bumba, the Committee Chair has expressed concerns with the frequent use of foreign contractors while denying local companies such opportunities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":24120,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","filesize_raw":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24118"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24118\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}