84 km of roads classified in Migori, under the 2023 KURA Report

Jan 11, 2024 - 13:35

A KURA road under construction. 84 kilometers of the KURA road networks had an allocation budgetary of Sh172 million for the 2022/2023 Financial Year (FY) and Sh171 million for the 2023/2024.

Migori,

Thursday, January 11, 2023,

KNA by Geoffrey Makokha

Kenya Urban Roads Authority (KURA) in a report of road works in Migori County 2023 projected a total of 84 Kilometers of KURA road networks in Migori and Kehancha urban areas.

The 84 kilometers of the KURA road networks had a budgetary allocation of Sh 172 million for the 2022/2023 Financial Year (FY) and Sh171 million for the 2023/2024.

Under Kenya Rural Roads Authority (KeRRA), the road network projected in Migori Region was 374.6 Kilometers and in FY 2023/2024 the County was allocated Sh44,230,000 per constituency under the 22 percent framework routine maintenance Levy Fund (RMLF).

Migori County Regional Director, Kenya Rural Roads Authority (KeRRA), Engineer Joshua Michoma, said that the procurement of the low-volume seal road works, was carried out but the commencement was halted due to the 2023 October-December heavy rains.

He, however, said that the operations of the roads, will resume late this month.

The budgetary allocations of the road networks, will be subjected to routine and periodic maintenance and improvement and upgrading to bitumen standards and drainage works. Installation of box culvert, gabion boxes, and drainage work will also be included.

Completed KURA projects (improvement to bitumen standards) for FY 2022/2023 includes the Kabau-Migori road in Suna West and the Senta-Nyamtiro-Remagoko river road in Kuria East Constituency.

The 2023 KURA brief Report of road works in Migori County, showed 17 more completed KURA road projects for FY 2022/2023 in Migori and Kehancha urban areas.

The Authority also plans to work on 21 road projects in Migori and Kuria urban areas.

However, a total of 62 kilometers have been categorized as critical road network that requires upgrading by KURA.

Migori County Commissioner, David Gitonga, while chairing the departmental head meeting late last year, asked KURA and KeRRA officials to implement the road projects that have already been procured to improve the road networks in the County.

Gitonga also urged the two road authorities’ personnel in the County, to embrace the Projects/programmes status reporting matrix for the National Government Development- County Implementation Coordination and Management Committee Report (NGD-CICMC) for easier government tracking and reporting.

Courtesy; KNA