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[QUOTE="Munyaradzi Mafaro, post: 80725, member: 636"]
Roads in Abim are a total joke after a little rain. Basically, every major route around that district in Uganda is now toast, stranding everyone and killing local businesses. Key roads like the one linking Kotido and Soroti near Abim Town Centre are ruined, with a huge muddy ditch trapping vehicles. The Abim-Napak and Abim-Agago roads are also completely blocked by bad bridges and flooding. Folks like Brian Ochan in Kiru Town Council and Owilli Allan Victor are blaming cheap materials and terrible construction by the Ministry of Works and Transport, saying even dry sections are just deep corrugations.

People are stuck, can't get goods to market, and can't reach health services. A local named Othii Principal Emmanuel from Abim Town Council says they've complained forever to their leaders with zero results. The situation is so bad that even a recent directive from President Museveni to fix Karamoja's roads, which includes Abim District, hasn't changed anything visible on the ground.

The community is basically screaming for any kind of urgent government intervention. They are watching their entire district get cut off and their economy falls apart because some minor rainfall wrecks the poorly built infrastructure every single time. Motorists are getting stranded for days, and no one in charge seems to be listening.
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