Nairobi Metropolitan Services has embarked on rehabilitating 38 roads in Industrial area. NMS deputy director-general Kang’ethe Thuku confirmed the report and said that tendering process for the restoration of the roads by NMS which have been categorized into different lots.
“NMS invites bids from interested and eligible tenderer to submit their bids for the following tenders before March 10, 2021,” said Mr. Kang’ethe Thuku.
Project details
The road projects have been categorized into groups. Lot 1 – Garage Road, Homa Bay Road, Workshop Road, Pate Road and Dar es Salaam Road. Lot 2 include Busia and Kampala Roads while Lot 3, Gilgil, Bamburi and Changamwe Roads.
Lot 4 roads include Dakar, Funzi, Athi River and Addis Ababa Roads while Lot 5 roads are Catalysts Road, Machakos Road, Baricho road and Wundany Road. Lot 6 include Rangwe, Mareba, Hola, Lusingeti and Kitui Roads while Migiwani Road, Isiolo, Bandari, Wajir, Chogoria and Jirore Roads are under Lot 7.
Butere, Yarrow, Bunyala and Factory Street will be under Lot 8 while the last batch will include Ndume, Nyahera, Runyenje, Lokitaung, Mogadishu roads. NMS will also undertake non-motorised transport in the area. In addition the NMS are also in consultation over upgrading more roads in the Eastlands area. They together with Kenya Urban Roads Authority have already embarked on the construction of 408 kilometres of access roads across different informal settlements in Nairobi.
Areas to benefit include Kawangware, Riruta, parts of Dagoretti North, Mathare, Kangemi, Mukuru, Kibera, parts of Githurai 44 and 45, Mwiki and Zimmermann, among others with the access roads in the areas upgraded to bitumen standards.
