Rehabilitation works on impassable feeder roads in Torit town of South Sudan’s Torit State started Monday, an official said.
This follows citizens’ complaints over the poor state of roads in town.
Speaking to Radio Tamazuj on Thursday, the director general in the state ministry of physical infrastructure, John Sebit stated that it is the responsibility of the state government to ensure internal roads are passable.
“Indeed it is the initiative of the government to see into it that the town looks clean, so it came as a plan from the ministry of physical infrastructure to make general maintenance of the roads within the municipality,” Sebit said.
He added, “The road maintenance is being carried out by the engineers from the ministry of physical infrastructure. We have one operator, which was brought from Uganda to come and operate a grader, but the rest are people who are from the ministry here”.
The government official pointed out that the rehabilitation of the feeder roads will take 20 days if enough funds are available.
He further said local revenues collected from the market are being used to maintain the roads, but did not mention how much it would cost.
“The construction within the Torit municipality will be completed within 20 days if we work tirelessly and if the resources are there because sometimes, we get stuck when resources are not there since the government is a little bit bankrupt at the moment,” Sebit said.
South Sudan, where oil revenues make up nearly 98 percent of the budget, has been reeling an under economic crisis due to civil war.