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Ruto signs Sh8.7 billion deal for electric buses

MCC CEO Alice Albright, President William Ruto, and Treasury CS Njuguna Ndung'u during the signing of the Kenya Urban Mobility and Growth Threshold Program in New York, USA, September 19.[PCS]

The government of Kenya and the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) have signed a Sh8.7 billion second threshold program agreement to improve urban connectivity and ease the transition to e-mobility.

The deal was signed on the sidelines of the ongoing United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) in New York.

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