Inside sluggish Sh883b slum upgrading programme

A slum along the railway line in Nairobi’s Kibera area in this skyline photo taken on September 27, 2016. [Jacob Otieno, Standard]

The Government insists that its Sh883 billion Kenya Slum Upgrading Programme (Kensup) is on track despite delays. Established in 2003, it was scheduled to be realised by 2020.

And despite an economy widely acknowledged to be in the ICU (Intensive Care Unit) owing to poor fiscal discipline, corruption and over-borrowing, Housing Secretary Patrick Bucha told Home & Away that “the programme is not dead” and that “it is on course.”