More pain for Thika Road pedestrians as KeNHA waits for footbridges from China.

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Pedestrians along the Thika superhighway will have to wait until August to get more footbridges installed.
Kenya National Highways Authority (KeNHA) has admitted of delays in the importation of Sh 800 million from China, blaming a slower pre-export inspection for the delay in shipping the metal structures.
(Related story: Witeithie, Njomoko to get footbridges beginning January 2018 – KeNHA.)
The authority now says they expect these structures will arrive later this month and be installed in August after their officials inspected the footbridges in China and ready for dispatch.
“We are already making the slabs ready so that once they arrive, we will just need two weeks to fix them and open for use,” explained Director-General Peter Mundinia.
(See also: Why Njomoko, Witeithie footbridges will cost the taxpayer a whooping KES. 430m.)
Plans to install these footbridges have been on the cards since August 2017 amid questions on when Kenya opted to build the bridges in China.

You mean these metallic structures are not fabricated locally? Hii ni mbaya

@shocks, uko wapi ? 2 bridges to cost ksh430 million ! ! ! Can you weigh on this please.

ata mimi nashangaa, kwani mchina alituroga na nini?

You wonder, department ya mechanical engineering pale Kenya poly can do it, if not, that institution ought to be shut down.
Followed by all public universities.

Nice. Steal your children’s future kabisa, then eat your bread surrounded by bodyguards, because the peasants you are stealing from will never give you any peace.

Restrictive covenants kwa izo contract za madeni.

This one should call for riots from all public universities, polytechnics and technical institution.
These are supposed to be fabricated locally.

just passing by

Importing is better juu lazima wapande ndege wakakule per diem ya 1 week

Hii Ni ngoma gani Rasta

Guiltiness

There’s no way the footbridges at garden city and Survey will be ready for installation by August.

This is insane… we have companies that are more than capable to do the job for a fraction of the the cost.
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Mambo ya roads sijui sana, wacha tuite @madova aje atueleze

Kenha are incompetent body, just check along outering rd, the number of businesses operating under these briddes messing with human traffic, and most have not been completed two years on,.no roofing no lighting.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TUvGzH5mC7k

We saw the Chinese construct all the footbridges on Thika Superhighway from Ngara to castle and we still do not have the techniques to fabricate the metal structures. I have seen Steel Structures Ltd make amazing buildings using steel. They certainly can do the foot bridges. Hapa ni mambo na tenders na kick-backs inasema.

Shell Kasarani. Kuna ingine pia Ngong road juzi juzi. Kazi imefanyika poa, lakini watu lazima wakule

This are pure lies… we have the required technologies locally when it comes to fabrication of such lasting structures. The only impediment being the materials grade which again can be acquired through importation. We have companies such as Southern Engineering in Mombasa carrying out construction of ships, Ooooh and for your information, H-Young & Company is the one that constructed those footbridges you see on Mombasa Road. So yes, let’s not be given stupid excuses on why we cannot do it locally~!