State adopts strategy to push completion of Mbita-Magunga-Sori road

The government will use a milestone-based method to enhance speed and accountability in tarmacking a Sh2.9 billion 74km Mbita-Magunga-Sori Road within Homa Bay and Migori counties.

The method involves paying the contractor upon completion of every 7.4 kilometres of the link road which had suffered delay and abandonment during the era of the Jubilee government.

Already, the government has rewarded a new contracted China Civil Engineering Construction Company and the construction works are ongoing on the road which is expected to boost transport and communication in the region.

Once completed, the road will be the first one ever to be constructed in Suba South constituency since independence.

Speaking when he accompanied the Nyanza Regional Commissioner Flora Mworoa during an inspection tour, the director of Presidential Delivery Unit Silvance Osele said that the method will ensure that the government prudently use her funds only for completed works.

He said in the past, several contractors have been taking advantage and abandoned their works before completion after receiving full payments. The Director said that this will see the government pay the contractor at least ten times since the road is 74 km long.

Milestone-based method

“We have devised a milestone-based method in this project where the contractor is paid after completing construction of every 7.4km in the road,” said Osele

Osele expressed optimism that the work had been given to a contractor who will not disappoint the government unlike the last contractor who abandoned the road in a messy state. “This contract has been given to a contractor who has the capacity to do the work and we believe he is going to complete it,” said Osele.

Residents of both of Suba South and North Constituency have been facing challenges in traversing the road which connects Homa Bay and Migori counties especially during rainy seasons.

According to Mworoa the construction work is expected to end in 2028. She said hiring the new contractor will prevent challenges which had been experienced in construction of the road before.