The government has said it has resolved a dispute over land for the construction of a new terminal at the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport.
The construction process of the new terminal, Transport Cabinet Secretary Kipchumba Murkomen, said will now begin next year.
“That place is now free for us to go the market and look for a private investor," he said.
"In the next six to eight months we will have made greater progress.”
He said an advertisement for expression of interest will be made in early January with the tender set to be awarded mid-2024.
The project, he said, will be done through the Public-Private Partnership model under the Build, Operate and Transfer.
Murkomen who was addressing the press after a meeting with heads of various agencies operating at JKIA said the new terminal challenges which have been faced by passengers and customers will be a thing of the past.
The construction of the 55 billion Greenfield terminal stalled back in 2015 a year after it was launched.
President William Ruto (then DP) and retired President Uhuru Kenyatta officiated the groundbreaking ceremony of the project at JKIA in December 2013.
It was to be completed in 2017.
However, in February 2015, the project stalled when issues emerged about its costs.
The new terminal would have increased JKIA’s passenger capacity by an additional 20 million people, making it one of the biggest aviation hubs on the continent.
Some 50 international check-in counters, eight air bridges for docking aircraft, and 45 aircraft parking stands would be put up including a new runway.
