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Reconsider move to decommission Suneka airstrip, Bonchari MP pleads with Ruto

A contractor working on the expansion of Suneka Airstrip. [Eric Abuga, Standard]

Bonchari MP Charles Onchoke has appealed to President William Ruto to reconsider the decommissioning of Suneka Airstrip in Kisii County by the government.

Onchoke who spoke to Journalists at Parliament buildings in Nairobi today said the government had spent millions of shillings in renovating the airstrip in the last ten years and that it was ill advised to have the facility closed down.

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