KPA defends Sh8.344b Mombasa port road infrastructure project

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Port of Mombasa. KPA CEO William Ruto says the contractor was constructing a road, bridge and a wall retention to contain hill slopes and drainage systems. [File, Standard]

Kenya Ports Authority (KPA) has defended the ongoing controversial construction of the Sh8.344 billion Port of Mombasa road infrastructure project.

The KPA management argued that the contract for the 1.8 kilometre project was competitively awarded to the lowest bidder and hence cheaper for taxpayers as the highest bidders sought to do it at Sh10 billion.

KPA CEO William Ruto said the contractor was constructing a road, bridge and a wall retention to contain hill slopes as well as drainage systems.