Editor’s Note: This article was originally published by The Citizen
Dar Es Salaam. Poor road development planning and chronic underfunding are slowing Tanzania’s infrastructure expansion, increase arrears and threatening service delivery, a new audit has revealed, showing that only half of planned road upgrades have been implemented over the past four years.
Despite rising demands for road infrastructure across the country, the government has over the past four consecutive financial years implemented an average of only 50% of planned road improvements between 2021 /22 and 2024/25, a shortfall that the controller and Auditor General (CAG) warns is now undermining transport efficiency, delaying economic activity and driving up unpaid contractors bills.
