Africa-Press – Kenya. Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua has said he is elated about the new maiden flights from Nairobi to Kakamega. Gachagua said the new development is a reprieve to many who have been wasting hours on the road.
The DP recounted his days working as a District Officer in Kakamega saying he had to make numerous hectic visits to Nairobi to visit his family. “This maiden flight to Kakamega is very nostalgic to me.”
“Many years ago I was a District Officer in one of the divisions in Kakamega, near Mumias and my family was living in Nairobi. It took me six hours to drive to Kakamega and I would arrive there very tired and waste a lot of time on the road,” he said.
The DP was speaking after he flagged off the first commercial flight to Kakamega at Wilson Airport. He said the launch of the airstrip is a reprieve for business people who will want to conduct urgent transactions.
“I can just imagine how nice it is now to have any business in Kakamega, Bungoma and Mumias and the surrounding areas,” he said. He said the launch clear indication that air transport is no longer a luxury of the chosen few.
“Air transport in this country is now a necessity to ease the cost of doing businesses, to ease travel and make it convenient for people and make it easier for domestic tourism to thrive.”
It will cost up to Sh5,990 to travel from Nairobi to the newly rehabilitated Kakamega Airstrip. Skyward Express says the flight will take approximately 45 minutes from Nairobi to Kakamega.
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