The road starts at Tororo and goes through Mbale, Bukedea, and Kumi before ending in Soroti, a distance of about 158 kilometres (98 mi).
Dott Services Limited of Uganda was selected as the main contractor.
[5] The Tororo-Mbale Section, whose renovation price was USh63.8 billion was commissioned in August 2015.
[6] When UNRA officials inspected this road in June 2016, prior to certifying the work as complete, they found it unsatisfactory.
The contractor, Dott Services Limited, will have to repair the defects before collecting the USh60 billion final payment.