Billions allocated to maintain highways

The Mountain Journal crews 

Kenya Roads Board (KRB) has disbursed Sh 41 billion to road agencies to facilitate maintainces of roads.

In the disbursement of funds for months between July and December last year, huge allocation of  Sh14,818,592,073 went to Kenya National Highways Authority (KeNHA), followed by Kenya Rural Roads Authority (KERRA) of Sh11,289,751,158.

In the disbursement list, Kenya Wildlife Service  Sh 481 Million,  county governments Sh4.7 billion and Ministry of Transport and Infrastructure Sh5.7 billion. Kenya Urban Roads will get Sh4.7 billion for the urban roads networks

The board Director General Rashid Mohammed said the allocation  has been released to the agencies  for implementation  of road works as  per the annual public roads programme and county work plans for financial year  2020/2021.

 KERRA will spend the amount in  working on national rural roads, while KeNHA  will deal with major trunk roads across the country.

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