The one side of the road had on Sunday been damaged and heavy trucks were diverted to Kagitumba-Kayonza-Kigali road.<\/p>\n
Since then, the repair activities started and the traffic flow has now resumed.<\/p>\n
On twitter, Uwihanganye said that the emergency repairs have been completed.
\n\u201cRoad traffic resumes for all vehicles. Works for emergency repairs completed. <\/p>\n
Permanent repair ongoing! Rwanda Traffic police is on the area for a continuous traffic management,\u201d reads the tweet.<\/p>\n
Since Monday, the road was being used by light vehicles and passengers\u2019 buses.
\nPolice also confirmed that the road was opened for heavy trucks.<\/p>\n
\u201cUpdate on the Gatuna-Gicumbi-Kigali Road: The road is now open to heavy trucks. Police officers are deployed to the site to facilitate traffic flow as more road construction works are underway,\u201d reads Police\u2019s tweet.<\/p>\n
In a press conference on Wednesday, Uwihanganye had said that the traffic flow would resume in normalcy on Monday next week.<\/p>\n
He said that reparation works started immediately to allow for quick restoration of flow.<\/p>\n
\u201cReconstruction activities have started. Machinery and technicians are in place. By Monday the road will be accessible to all vehicles,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
The road damages took place in Cyumba Sector of Gicumbi District.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The Minister of State in charge of Transportation in the Ministry of Infrastructure, Jean de Dieu Uwihanganye has said that the road Gatuna-Gicumbi-Kigali has been re-opened to all vehicles to or from Kigali to Gatuna.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[75],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-37511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-homenews","byline-igihe"],"bylines":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"contributors":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37511","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37511"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37511\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37511"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=37511"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=37511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}