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Construction of Nairobi’s Outer Ring Road yet to start, nine months after ground breaking

President Uhuru Kenyatta(right) when he launched the construction of Nairobi Eastern Missing Link Roads same day he launched Outer Ring Road construction at Mlango Kubwa Nairobi County on looking is European Union Ambassador, Lodewijk Briet. PHOTO: BEVERLYNE MUSILI/FILE

NAIROBI: Only five per cent of the ongoing Sh8.5 billion Nairobi Outer Ring Road project has been completed.

The construction is part of the plans to de-congest city roads and was launched by President Uhuru Kenyatta on January 22. The work was scheduled to last three years.

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