The company has also constructed underground water reservoir and an elevated water tank for the hospital.
The rest of the rehabilitation projects are also going at a faster pace than they were at the beginning according to one of the project managers in the GoSS Ministry of Housing, Lands and Public Utilities, Mr Louis Kwot.
“Despite the slow beginning I am satisfied with the renovation work,” remarks the Chairman of the Renovation Committee of the Southern Sudan Legislative Assembly (parliament), Mr. Nartisio Loluke Manir. He says there is need to train the staff on how to take care and maintain the facilities fitted in the buildings.
These projects that fall under the Sudan Emergency Transport Infrastructure Development Projects (SETIDP) are supported by the Multi-Donor Trust Fund for Southern Sudan (MDTF-S) administered by the World Bank. SETIDP is a 3 phase program estimated to cost about $777 million to execute. The ongoing first phase comprising maintenance of urban infrastructure and road repairs and construction began in 2006, with an amount of $150 million.
Eight of the GoSS Ministries are being renovated by the Ugandan based Roko Construction Company. However, two of the buildings have not yet been handed to the company by the government because of lack of space to relocate the staff.
The completed houses have won the admiration of the people of Juba because they look smarter than the original buildings. Explaining what the company has done, the Roko Site Quantity Surveyor, Mr Ndahura Godfrey said they had done more than just rehabilitation. “We have overhauled and modified the old buildings,” he said.
Source: Sudan Tribune
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