Tuesday, October 1, 2024 - Treasury Cabinet Secretary John Mbadi has promised to help President William Ruto raise funds to restart stalled road projects across the country.
Speaking during a meeting yesterday, Mbadi
acknowledged that most road projects had stalled owing to a lack of funds.
He added that the government was also yet to
pay contractors close to Ksh161 billion for various infrastructure projects
being undertaken across the country.
As a consequence, Mbadi revealed that
contractors had left the construction sites awaiting the payments.
Therefore, he assured that he was working on
ways of raising funding for the projects, indicating that the resumption of
construction would be witnessed across the country.
"Contracts are awarded but there is no
funding. As the CS for National Treasury my job is to help the President get
money to do development and complete projects which have stalled," he
promised.
"When you move across the country, all
road projects have stalled. I am going to ensure that I help the President to
get resources to restart all the roads across the country."
Notably, the CS did not detail his plan for
raising the resources and the timelines of his plan.
In recent months, Kenyans have lamented over
the number of projects that have stalled.
In response, Ruto and government officials
have explained that the stalling of projects were occasioned by pending bills
and a lack of resources.
The Kenyan DAILY POST
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