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ADB approves Sh18b funding to upgrade, maintain key highway

Nairobi Nakuru highway under construction at Rironi area. [George Njunge, Standard]

Plans to upgrade the 178-kilometre Nairobi-Nakuru-Mau-Summit highway to a four-lane carriageway have received a major boost after the African Development Bank approved funding of close to Sh18 billion.

The construction, financed under the government’s First Mover Public-Private Partnership (PPP) programme, is expected to take three years to complete.

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