Mpigi–Kabulasoke–Maddu–Sembabule Road


Mpigi–Kabulasoke–Maddu–Sembabule Road is a road in the Central Region of Uganda, connecting the towns of Mpigi in Mpigi District to Gombe in Butambala District, Kabulasoke and Maddu in Gomba District and Sembabule in Sembabule District.

Location

The road starts at Mpigi, a town of 44,274, about, southwest of Kampala, the capital of Uganda and the largest city in that country. The road continues through four central Ugandan districts to end at Ssembabule, a total distance of about. The coordinates of the road near Kanoni are 0°10'26.0"N, 31°55'27.0"E.

Upgrading to bitumen

In October 2010, Uganda National Roads Authority, a parastatal, publicly announced that in 2011, it would begin upgrading of 32 different national roads in the country, from unsealed gravel surface to class II bitumen. This road was one of the roads on that list.
The road was divided into two sections; Mpigi–Kanoni Road and Kanoni–Sembabule Road. Work on both sections started in 2014, with expected completion in the second half of 2017. A related road, the Sembale–Villa Maria Road is under the same contract and work on that road is expected to begin in September 2015, with completion expected in 2018. Finding is 100 percent provided by the Ugandan government.