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Kipchumba Murkomen's tough task to deliver state projects

Roads Cabinet Secretary Kipchumba Murkomen and Moja Express way CEO Steve Zhao cross a rail during inspection of Express Way at Mlolongo in Machakos County on July 13, 2023. [Denish Ochieng, Standard]

Transport CS Kipchumba Murkomen has his work cut out in honouring the one-year performance contract he signed on Tuesday.

In the contract between Murkomen and his boss, President William Ruto, which took effect from July 1, he pledged his ministry would absorb the Sh5 billion allocated to development and recurrent programmes, projects and activities in the Roads and Transport department.

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