It’s a sigh of relief for Busia County residents after the Kenya National Highway Authority (KeNHA) on Thursday placed an advert in newspapers seeking bids from eligible contractors for dualling of the Busia One Stop Border Post-Korinda road.

KeNHA has invited similar bids for completion of outstanding and additional works for Malaba One-Stop Border Post.

The move by Trade Mark East Africa (TMA) to fast track the dualling of the busy road will end over five years of uncertainty with the Governor H.E Sospeter Ojaamong lauding TMA, the financiers, for the gesture.

The Governor said the journey to dualize the road started in 2015 when he hosted the then British High Commissioner to Kenya Dr Christian Turner who offered to have the dualling of the road with a donation of Ksh300million from the British Government.

The Governor said the road upgrade will bring a sigh of relief to his administration which had to endure criticisms from county residents over poor state of the road.

“My government has been blamed on several occasions over claims I have refused to expand the road which is a preserve of the national government,” the Governor said.

He added: ” This is a Northern Corridor road to East and Central Africa and it was not the responsibility of my Government to maintain it,” the governor said in response to complaints that his administration had failed to maintain it.”

The Scope of work for the Busia OSBP road works will involve dualling of of the main road from One Stop Border Post towards Korinda with motorcycles and bicycles access and pedestrian walk.

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