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As part of their mission to inspect and observe flood-prone areas for immediate intervention in the provincial regions, the National Roads Authority (NRA) technical team on Friday, 4th July 2025, visited the ongoing Engineering Procurement and Construction (EPC) Lots 1 and 2 roads in the Upper River and Central River Region, respectively.<\/p>\n
The 69km Lot 1 road project is contracted to Gai Construction Company and CityScape Associates the Consultant. It comprises several roads in the URR with a total length of 69km.<\/p>\n
The contractor is currently working on six (6) out of fifteen (15) roads. The roads being constructed are as follows;-<\/p>\n
1. Basse Manneh Kunda \u2013 Demba Kunda \u2013 Gambisara Road (12.18km).<\/p>\n
2. Basse – Dampha Kunda \u2013 Tambasasang Road (9.20km).<\/p>\n
3. Chamoi – Dampha Kunda Road (2.66km).<\/p>\n
4. Angalfuta Road \u2013 Reinforced Concrete Pavement (1.75km).<\/p>\n
5. Manneh Kunda Road \u2013 Reinforced Concrete Pavement (1.68km).<\/p>\n
6. Brikamaba – Boiram \u2013 Njoben Road (6.32km).<\/p>\n
7. Sutukoba \u2013 Chamoi Bunda Road, (27km).<\/p>\n
The contractor’s current activities in alleviating any flooding issues in Lot 1 include:
\nThe ongoing construction of the giant culvert at the Basse – Dampha Kunda \u2013 Tambasasang Road.<\/p>\n
Finalising all the critical areas for flood intervention in Numuyel, where the flood water level used to be very high.<\/p>\n
Working on temporary waterway structures in Chamoi Bunda Road, where it floods the people’s compounds.<\/p>\n
The contractor is also working on the erosion protection on the drainage structures.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, other current activities on site are concreting and payment works. They have already cleared the Brikamaba-Wellingara Ba road and are also working on addressing the recent minor flooding issue in the coming weeks.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, in Lot 2 of the EPC Roads Project in the Central River Region (CRR).<\/p>\n
The Contractor Cornerstone Construction company is actively working on two (2) roads out of the three (3) various road sections.
\n1: Njau Loop up to Carol Warf (12km).<\/p>\n
2: Karantaba-Reneru-Tabanani-Demfaye Njaga-fitu Fulla (26km).<\/p>\n
3: Laminkoto-Banni-Youna-Kunting (12km).<\/p>\n
Although there have not been any flooding issues yet, the contractor has identified measures to tackle any incoming flooding problems.<\/p>\n
Ongoing site works, the contractor Cornerstone is now working on both the base course and double surface dressing in the Karantaba-Reneru-Tabanani-Demfaye Njaga-fitu Fulla road.<\/p>\n
5km of Surface dressing has already been completed, and 11km of priming has already been done.<\/p>\n
However, both contractors (Gai Construction and Cornerstone) are on standby in case of any eventualities during the upcoming rains.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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