The county government of Kirinyaga has commissioned upgrading of town roads and improvement of drainage system.
Governor Waiguru performed the ceremony and said the project which is a collaboration between the county government and national government will change the face of the fast growing town and provide an inclusive, efficient and conducive business environment that will spur economic growth for the people.
The project involve upgrading of 4.6 kilometers of roads to bitumen standards. Governor Waiguru said that the roads to be covered include Catholic dispensary link road-1.4km, Kianyaga Government Houses link road-1.2km, Kiburia Girls School junction to ICT Centre road-0.4km, Children Home link road-0.4km and Kamiigua –Rukenya road-1.2km.
Infrastructural development programmes
The roads that are being upgraded through the Storm water Drainage and Urban Improvement Project are aimed at improving water drainage systems and offer sustainable storm water management in various towns in the county.
Kianyaga’s upgrade is one of the major transformative infrastructural development programmes being undertaken in the county’s urban towns. Other towns that have been upgraded include Kerugoya, Kutus, Kagio where about 25,000 square meters of cabro pavements have already been laid creating more than 800 car park slots and easy accessibility of business premises. A similar upgrade programme is currently going on in Wang’uru town where over 30kms of roads are being tarmacked while Kutus town is also earmarked for tarmacking.
“The projects are part of an elaborate plan by the County Government to continually improve the town’s infrastructure as an enabler to socio-economic development and improved livelihoods for all the residents,” said the governor.
