Bid to tarmack Kitale-Uganda road backed

Infrastructure and Transport Cabinet Secretary Michael Kamau during a past function. PHOTO | FILE |

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  • Local Governor Patrick Khaemba had called for tarmacking of the road to open up developments at the Suam border, which links the county to Uganda.

The Kenyan and Ugandan governments are working jointly to tarmack a highway joining the two states to spur economic development.

Speaking in Trans Nzoia, Roads Cabinet Secretary Michael Kamau said the two governments want the highway from Kitale in Kenya to Kapchorwa in Uganda tarmacked.

OPEN UP DEVELOPMENT

“We are working with the African Development Bank to see to it that the highway, which is currently a rough road, is tarmacked,” Mr Kamau said in Kitale.

Local Governor Patrick Khaemba had called for tarmacking of the road to open up developments at the Suam border, which links the county to Uganda.

“Our plans to have 100 acres — which are part of a forest at Kenya/Ugandan border of Suam — converted into a market can only be fruitful if the highway is tarmacked,” said the Governor.

DISMISSED CLAIMS

The Cabinet Secretary dismissed claims by the Opposition that the government had favoured Central Kenya in road construction.

Saboti MP David Wafula supported the CS on this, saying: “I have personally had a chance to travel to parts of Central Kenya like Kirinyaga and claims that the road network in the region is magnificent are lies.”

The cabinet secretary, who was to commission a bridge at Motosiet in Cherang’any, was accompanied by Senator Ziporah Kittony, MP David Wafula and area women rep Janet Nangabo.