Tourism Cabinet Secretary Najib Balala had lauded the Jomo Kenya International Airport (JKIA)/ Westlands Expressway, indicating the road has the capacity to attract tourists to the country.
He spoke on Tuesday after joining his colleagues including Transport CS James Macharia, Industrialization’s CS Betty Maina, and Devolution’s Eugene Wamalwa in touring and inspecting the construction works.
“Infrastructure builds a nation, it also develops and expands the GDP and that is why investment in infrastructure has been key. This infrastructure is key for people to come here and spend 24 hours during their layover so that they do not waste time at the airport and they can come into town and spend money,” said Balala.
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This was disclosed by Transport Cabinet Secretary James Macharia on Friday during an inspection tour. It was initially to be completed December 2022 but has now been moved to December 2021.
“We want to gift Kenyans this facility as soon as possible, so we discussed with them (contractor) to reduce the time. They first reduced to two and half years, but now we have agreed with them to try and finish the main structures by December 2021,” said the CS.
According to Mr Macharia, the Nairobi Expressway project is a very critical piece of infrastructure because it is a link between east of the country and the west. The project will be extended all the way to Machakos.