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530-km Lapsset highway construction starts mid next year

Lapsset chair Francis Muthaura (second right) and Transport Cabinet Secretary James Macharia (centre) on signing a deal for construction of a road to open up the northern Kenya corridor, Nov 29, 2017. PHOTO | KANYIRI WAHITO | NMG

By  Collins Omulo

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Nation Media Group

Construction of the 530-kilometre Lamu-Garissa-Isiolo Highway, the first section of the Lapsset infrastructure project, is set to start mid next year.

Transport Secretary James Macharia said the government had entered a deal with a consortium to fund the project to a tune of Sh62 billion ($620 million) in initial capital investment.

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