By TMJ Senior Reporter in Igwamiti
With only two years left, counties
are battling on how they will deliver the promises made to the electorate.
Laikipia County Government is working efforts to provide quality roads to meet the expectation of the locals in the vast region bordering Isiolo, Meru and Samburu counties.
Under the leadership of Governor Ndiritu
Muriithi, Laikipia is one of the counties that moved away from contracting for
road works, settling on leasing programme for equipment, in pursuit for the
effective service delivery mission.
Last year, the governor commissioned
the model of leasing equipment after tedious processing to settle on the best
partner, to save the county from be charged exorbitantly by the commercial
contractors.
Ndiritu said it took him a year
to come up with the concept of lease programme and which was found fit to deal
with the challenges in the county.
“Under this concept some of the
security roads in Laikipia West have been worked on and the situation
has since improved,” said the Governor.
County Secretary Karanja Njora,
the governor said is the supervisor of the programme to ensure it is
effective service delivery.
The programme met opposition from
contractors and blogger who questioned why the county government denied
investors who had bought earth moving equipment for service delivery.
“We have done approximately 500
kilometers of road have been done with less than Sh50million,” said Mr
Ndiritu.
Njora said the programme has
opened the interior parts of Laikipia which had been declared the
worse by the electorates.
“In the concept of the leasing
programme cost of working on a kilometer of the road does not exceed
Sh700,000,” said Mr Njora.
Njora said 395.65 kilometers of road
have been graded, with another 132.6 kilometers graveled in a project
coordinated by Eng Duncan Muturi.
The cost of the works is less than
Sh50 million, said Njora estimating the contractors could have paid Sh300
million.
“Following the success in the road
programme, the county is working on the introduction of leasing medical
equipment which will be placed in all health facilitates,” said Njora.
Muturi on his part said 90 percent of the roads
in Umande Ward have been worked on.
“We are
working on to increase the number of equipment to ensure within a short time the
whole county will be covered,” said Muturi.
Table
below shows work is done through the leasing programme between November 4,
2019, and August 14, 2020
|
No |
Ward |
KM (Graded) |
KM (Graveled) |
|
1 |
Salama |
31.9 |
26 |
|
2 |
Ol Moran |
48.3 |
30.2 |
|
3 |
Thingithu |
7.4 |
6.8 |
|
4 |
Marmanet |
37 |
15.3 |
|
5 |
Umande |
27.5 |
22.25 |
|
6 |
Tigithi |
74.8 |
3.65 |
|
7 |
Segera |
5.2 |
6.6 |
|
8 |
Mukogodo East |
7.5 |
3.5 |
|
9 |
Sossian |
48.4 |
0 |
|
10 |
Githiga |
20 |
0 |
|
11 |
Nanyuki |
4.6 |
0.45 |
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