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Hope for clean water as Sh60b Thwake dam contract signed

Irrigation Principal Secretary Zeinab Hussein and China Gezhouba Group Company Ltd Kenya Branch General Manager Yang Tao at the agreement signing ceremony; with them is Water and Irrigation Cabinet Secretary Eugene Wamalwa. [Courtesy]

Residents of Kitui and Makueni counties will soon access clean water after the government signed a contract to construct the Thwake Multi-Purpose Dam.

The Sh60 billion contract was signed by the State Directorate of Irrigation Principal Secretary Zeinab Hussein, witnessed by the Cabinet Secretary of Water and Irrigation Eugene Wamalwa and the Kitui Governor Charity Ngilu.

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