After investing heavily in Roads and the Health sectors in the last two years, the Nairobi County Government has announced that it will now give more emphasis on the Environment.
The County Government also announced that it will put more emphasis on Water and Sewer services in the next two financial years.
City Hall says the county’s road network has improved by 70% especially in the estates and densely populated areas like Pipeline, Kware, Kawangware, Kangemi and most parts in Eastlands.
An analysis of the Controller of Budget reports for the FYs 2017/18 and 2018/19 shows that the transport sector is the second biggest sector in terms of absorption of funds after health.
The county has spent over Sh5.6 billion on development in the last one year and close to Sh10 billion in the last two years.
Some of the projects that recorded the highest expenditure in development budget include the Nairobi Regeneration project (Sh800 million).
Matopeni road (Sh119 million), development of selected roads in Utawala (Sh70 million), Sh52 million on perimeter walls, Gathuru road in Kawangware (Sh58 million), supply of water tanks (Sh51 million) and Lumumba drive (Sh22 million).
According to City Hall, the County Government has so far done 123km of roads in all the 17 sub-counties and there are ongoing upgrade works as well.
Recently, the county received Sh415 million in conditional grants from the Kenya Roads Board.
Governor Sonko has since issued an executive order that these monies be channeled to opening of feeder roads and upgrading of roads in the informal settlements.
In this financial year, the transport sector was allocated Sh3.64 billion, while the environment and water department received Sh2.7 billion for the expansion of water and sewerage infrastructure.
Sonko said the county is also focusing more on health where all the county health facilities will be upgraded.
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