President Uhuru Kenyatta’s visit to Beijing for the 2018 China-Africa summit scored big wins for Kenya with Chinese private investors lining up for public-private partnership deals worth billions of shillings. Two major roads in North Eastern will also be constructed through the public-private investments. The two roads, Modogashe-Habaswein-Samatar and Elwak-Rhamu road will cost Sh15 billion and would be constructed through a partnership involving Chinese private companies under the Kenya government’s roads annuity program... President Uhuru said Kenya appreciates China’s demonstrated commitment in supporting Kenya’s development goals“It is my ambition that we shall continue to strengthen our strategic and comprehensive partnership,” said President Uhuru. President Uhuru was accompanied by Cabinet Secretaries Monica Juma (Foreign Affairs), Henry Rotich (National Treasury), James Macharia (Transport and Infrastructure) and Peter Munya (Trade and Industry).

Source: The Star September 04, 2018 16:30 UTC