Ruto kicked off work on the Rironi to Mau Summit highway expansion, and he promised the Kamandura to Gilgil section would be done within half a year while the whole 233-kilometer project wraps up by mid-2027. The road gets built through a public-private partnership with Chinese firms and NSSF money, then contractors will run it as a toll road for 28 years to get their investment back.
The upgraded highway goes four lanes from Rironi to Naivasha, then bumps up to six lanes heading into Nakuru to handle the heavy traffic. Construction is supposed to create 15,000 jobs, and the government ditched an earlier French-led deal that went nowhere before landing on this Chinese-backed setup that keeps direct public borrowing lower.
The upgraded highway goes four lanes from Rironi to Naivasha, then bumps up to six lanes heading into Nakuru to handle the heavy traffic. Construction is supposed to create 15,000 jobs, and the government ditched an earlier French-led deal that went nowhere before landing on this Chinese-backed setup that keeps direct public borrowing lower.
