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Africa-Press<\/a> – Kenya<\/a>. <\/strong><\/span>Kenya National Highways Authority (KeNHA) has awarded a new Ksh17 billion highway project to a Chinese firm.<\/p>\n

In a special ceremony hosted on Monday, April 19, KeNHA Director General Peter Mundinia signed a tender award to China Communication Construction Company.<\/p>\n

The company received the Ksh17 billion tender for the construction of Lamu – Ijara – Garissa highway in a period of 36 months.<\/p>\n

The company was directed to upgrade the highway, which is 196 kilometers long, to all-weather gravel standards.<\/p>\n

The project is part of the Lamu Port-South Sudan-Ethiopia-Transport (LAPSSET) Corridor project and consists of spur roads associated with the highway.<\/p>\n

The highway is the first part of a Ksh25 billion road construction project that the state is expected to undertake in Lamu County stretching 250 kilometers.<\/p>\n

The other sections which are yet to be tendered include a 15-kilometer part that is Hindi to Kiunga.<\/p>\n

KeNHA Chairman Wangai Ndirangu, a week ago, revealed that the project’s had already been budgeted for in the current financial year.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe two security roads will have a two-pronged effect in improving security within the Lamu-Boni area, as well as opening up the area for future investors once the Lamu Port operationalisation takes off later this year,\u201d stated Ndirangu.<\/p>\n

Gravel works on the project are reportedly in progress.<\/p>\n

Once complete, the highway will form a permanent route for ferrying goods along the Northern Corridor all the way up to Southern Ethiopia.<\/p>\n

This comes a day after Transport Cabinet Secretary James Macharia issued an ultimatum to engineers from China Wu Yi firm over the delays in the Ksh16 billion Waiyaki way expansion project.<\/p>\n

The project involves the expansion of the 25km James Gichuru-Rironi Road stretch along Waiyaki Way into a superhighway. The project, which began in 2017, had been slated to be completed in December 2020.<\/p>\n

The CS said that the delays were becoming more frequent, and gave an ultimatum for the road to be completed by the end of July 2021.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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