Insist on integrity more than just fleeing from corruption

On August 15, 2017, a press release from the Kenya National Highways Authority announced that they were ‘set to roll out the construction of the 473km Nairobi – Mombasa (A8) Expressway.’ This high-speed road would be financially supported by USA’s Overseas Private Investment Corporation and Export Credit Agencies, and built by Bechtel International, an American company from San-Francisco.

Because of its four lanes and average consistent speeds of 120km per hour, the Expressway was going to slash the time taken between Kenya’s two biggest cities to four hours. This would in turn drive up business nationally and regionally. Unfortunately, this historic project is yet to commence more than two years later, yet the first section of the expressway was to have been fully operational two months ago in October. There have been accusations and counter-accusations about the reasons behind this delay.