This Wednesday at the parliamentary building, the general assembly of the chambers of deputies adopted the draft law regulating Road Networks in Rwanda.
The draft law regulating road networks, regulates boundaries of the road, categories of the road and how they will be maintained.
The draft law provides for different road categories; state roads, District and Kigali City Roads and any other place considered as a town and private roads, as stated in the draft law.
State roads include highways connecting Rwanda and neighboring countries,district and Kigali city roads, are roads connecting districts enabling tourists to reach other areas and other gazetted places.
Its provided in the draft law that the state roads, district and Kigali city road boundaries will be implemented on both sides of the road after six months after implementation of the law.
However, regarding the expropriation of residents along such roads, its planned that, during the construction of state roads, Kigali city and district roads , the process has to be conducted according to the law governing expropriation inline with general interest of the public.
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