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<\/div>A bulldozer clearing a section of Kisii -Isebania highway. The road which is under construction is connecting Kenya and Tanzania.<\/strong> [Sammy Omingo, Standard]\n<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n Private developers have been assured their properties will remain intact even as works on the Sh8.6 billion Kisii-Migori road near completion.\n<\/p>\n Contractors are planning to design a unique underpass and roundabout at the Migori-Kisii road junction. So far, no major structure has been demolished since the construction started more than three years ago. The project is 85 per cent complete. <\/p>\n The China Henan International Cooperation is building the road which is to be completed before the end of year.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n The construction of the interchange and expressway is part of President Uhuru Kenyatta\u2019s legacy projects.<\/p>\n Project\u2019s resident engineer James Mageto said the interchange at the Kisii-Migori border will be unique and the first of its kind in East Africa.\n<\/p>\n \u201cWe will have an underpass and a roundabout on top of it. This region is unique and has the potential for economic growth. We want to build a road that will serve several generations to come,\u201d he said.\n<\/p>\n Mageto said they had constructed several exits and feeder roads as requested by governors James Ongwae (Kisii) and Cyprian Awiti (Homa Bay). <\/p>\n Access roads<\/strong>\n<\/p>\n He said the Nyamataro-Draja Mbili, Nyambera-Nyatieko, Suneka-Rangwe (18 kilometres) and Nyachenge-Tabaka-Riosiri-Ogembo (15 kilometres) were incorporated into their programme.\n<\/p>\n \u201cWe have completed these access roads as requested by the two governors. Some will have street lights,\u201d he said.\n<\/p>\n According to Mageto, a request by the Kisii County Government to have a dual carriageway from Suneka to Daraja Mbili and Daraja Mbili to Kisii Hotel had been approved by the funding agency.\n<\/p>\n Daraja Mbili will also have an interchange less than three kilometres from the Kisii-Migori junction underpass. <\/p>\n \u201cThere is no doubt that the project will greatly impact the economic growth of towns along the corridor. Kisii will have a new face to support its municipality status,\u201d said Mageto.\n<\/p>\n According to Governor Ongwae, the population of Lake Victoria Basin is over four million, and up to two million people rely on the Isebania-Kisii-Ahero road and the associated feeder roads for transportation.\n<\/p>\n \u201cThe access roads are a game-changer. Kisii is a business hub that requires road expansion programmes,\u201d he said.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Source: The Standard Media Kenya<\/a> <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A bulldozer clearing a section of Kisii -Isebania highway. The road which is under construction is connecting Kenya and Tanzania. [Sammy Omingo, Standard] Private developers have been assured their properties will remain intact even as works on the Sh8.6 billion Kisii-Migori road near completion. Contractors are planning to design a unique underpass and roundabout at […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-913574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/913574","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=913574"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/913574\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=913574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=913574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=913574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}