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Her routine suppervison resonates from the meeting held on 23rd January this year that resolved to fast track national oilseed project road  to ensure completion on time.  In ensuring efficient and effective work at the sites, the Chief Administrative Officer has paced up weekly supervision to beat the timeline. The completion of works on headwalls and stone pitching along Aswani-Busano road link and lastly at Ndokhwe arch bridge shows the work progress is now at 90% The NOSP has been operating in the district from 2023 to date, in the sub counties of Bungokho, Busoba, Bukiende, Lukhonge and Busiu.  Currently, the NOSP road connects Bungokho to Bumbobi and Aswan to Busano as a Rehabilitation Community Access road covering 11.6km The National Oilseed project aims to enhance commercialisation within key oilseed value chain that is by improving livelihoods and resilience among smallholder farmers engaged in oil seeds production and marketi...

Mbale district monitoring and supervision team in an inclusive composure, continued to assese the works of NOSP community access road spanning from Bungokho to Bumbobi respectively. The team compromised of political and technical stakeholders with the presence of Deputy resident commissioner, Nakawala Naume as mandated by the President. The composition at Bungokho Sub county yielded numbers for the day's activity as Chris Mafabi, the sub county chairman shared his findings with Monitoring and supervision lead team. According to the Site Engineer Magola Stanley, said that the 11.6Kms  work progress stands at 45% including site clearing, bush clearing, graveling,  drainage system and Arch bridge construction at 80%. This project is expected to last for 8 months to it's completion, however two months have gradually lifted hopes among the Community farmers, a snapshot of activities along the access road reveal the impact is steadily building. NOSP aims at creating market linkage f...