Mt Kenya region to reap big from Lapsset project

Governor Peter Munya (left) with Lapsset Board Chairman Amb Francis Muthaura at Meru Slopes Hotel during a meeting on the Lapsset project. [PHOTO: PATRICK MUTHURI/ STANDARD]

Mt Kenya region is set to benefit in a big way from the Lamu Port Southern Sudan-Ethiopia Transport (Lapsset) corridor project, which will begin to take shape in the next few months.

Meru County plans to launch several infrastructure projects to cash in on the ripple effect, which will open up a swathe of previously undeveloped Eastern and Northern Kenya, dispersing the goodies to as far as Nanyuki and Nyeri, according to Lappset management board officials who were in Meru on Tuesday.