Kitui to fi nish airstrip project at Sh133 million

Kitui’s Ithookwe airstrip will from June next year be accessed through a tarmac road. The county government has invested Sh133 million in the project. “Visitors and residents will no longer access the airstrip from Kitui town on a bumpy and dusty all-weather road. The improvement to bitumen works will be completed by June,” said Lands executive Gitonga Nkunda.

by By Musembi Nzengu@nzengumj

News22 January 2019 - 00:59

Kitui County Lands and Infrastructure Executive Gitonga Nkunda (right) is joined by engineers when he visited the Kaayo Bridge that connected the Kitui Central and Kitui West regions whose construction is ongoing. Photo by Musembi Nzengu

Kitui’s Ithookwe airstrip will from June next year be accessed through a tarmac road. The county government has invested Sh133 million in the project.

“Visitors and residents will no longer access the airstrip from Kitui town on a bumpy and dusty all-weather road. The improvement to bitumen works will be completed by June,” said Lands executive Gitonga Nkunda.

Nkunda said the tarmacking of the four-and-a-half kilometre airstrip adds to the tarmacking of Kitui town’s Mjini to Stadium road and the main road in

Mwingi at a cost of Sh53 million.

Nkunda briefed the media after inspecting roadworks in Kitui Central, Kitui West, Kitui Rural and Kitui South subcounties on Tuesday.