The planned rehabilitation of Mombasa road is set to begin this month and end in 2025, Roads and Transport Cabinet Secretary Kipchumba Murkomen has said.
Murkomen said the tenders have already been awarded.
The CS disclosed that the two-year periodic maintenance of the road will cost Sh3.1 billion.
“The rehabilitation works are scheduled to commence on April 26, and is anticipated to be completed by April 25, 2025,” Murkomen told Parliament on Wednesday.
He was responding to a question by Mwingi Central MP Gideon Mulyungi who wanted to know when the renovation works will start on the road affected during the construction of the Nairobi Expressway.
According to the CS, the contract for the Nairobi Southern bypass interchange (Ole Sereni-Athi River Interchange (A8 ) stretch has been awarded to M/S Wolf Paving Works Kenya Limited for Sh1.86 billion.
The 27-kilometre Expressway was constructed by China Road and Bridge Corporation (CRBC) for Sh72.8 billion.
Construction started in 2019.
The maintenance of James Gichuru road junction-Nairobi Southern bypass interchange (Ole Sereni (A8) Road, Murkomen added, will be done by M/s Shovels N trowels limited to Sh1.19 billion.
During its opening in May last year, former Transport Cabinet Secretary James Macharia said his ministry had set aside Sh9 billion to repair it.
Nandi Senator Samson Cherargei even sought a statement in the House questioning why the government wants to incur Sh9 billion yet they are not responsible for the damages to the road.
The CS at the same time stated that the Expressway contractor and KeNHA have agreed to have an exit into the CBD at the Green Park terminus.
This, he said, will allow access to Haile Selassie Avenue and Uhuru Highway hence addressing the complaints which had been raised by the motorists.
“The construction will take 8 months from issuance of approval by the Contracting Authority which is expected to be communicated to the Project Developer by the end of April,” Murkomen said.
He said the approved design for the Expressway included an exit into CBD at Haile Selassie roundabout which could not be constructed at the time of construction as the government could not avail the land required.
This was due to a “push back from environmental lobbyists regarding sitting of the exit toll station in Uhuru Park and from the Kenya Railways Golf Club management regarding sitting of the exit toll station on a portion of land within their golf course.