The Kenya Kwanza administration plans to extend the SGR that stopped in Naivasha to the Kenya-Uganda border in Kisumu, to serve its full purpose.
Roads and Transport Cabinet secretary Kipchumba Murkomen, however, said this will depend on the availability of resources.
He cited the huge public debts which he said are affecting the realisation of key development projects lined up by the government.
“The SGR will eventually be moved to the border because our friends in Uganda are also working on their SGR and this will ensure the remaining connection is done...but not at the current situation,” he said.
“This project will only make sense when it goes past Naivasha as compared to the current situation where we are forced to transport goods by the lake instead of having it through the Kisumu port.”
The CS said he will soon be making public the contract of the project.
The Mombasa-Nairobi phase 1 was done at Sh327billion while the extension to Naivasha under phase 2A gobbled up Sh150billion.
Phase 2b was to pass through Narok-Bomet-Kericho to Kisumu at Sh380 billion.
