Nyeri Senator Wahome Wamatinga incorporation of road reserves for amenities
Nyeri County Senator Wahome Wamatinga during a parliamentary session
By Our Correspondent
Nyeri County Senator Wahome Wamatinga is seeking for the incorporation of road reserves for road-side amenities in all highway designs.
In a motion tabled in the Senate, the lawmaker wants the Ministries of Roads, Transport and Public Works, Health, the Kenya National Highways Authority, and the National Transport and Safety Authority to come up with a policy framework to streamline the sector.
Sen. Wamatinga further wants the ministry to undertake a survey to ascertain the specific amenities required but not available on the existing highways and the most convenient locations to develop them.
In addition the Nyeri Senator through his motion is tasking the institutions to develop a Public Private Partnership guideline on leasing of the road reserves to developers, financing the construction of the amenities, and the packaging of incentives to attract investors.
The Senator noted in his motion that majority of highway users, most of whom are long distance travelers and some of whom are children, elderly, and sick, face a myriad of challenges including traffic delays and breakdown of their vehicles that cause them to spend long hours on the road exposing them to starvation, insecurity threats, and to the need for sanitary and medical facilities.
“The current road-side amenities are operated and maintained by private companies, majorly oil companies and they are located in urban centers while in the countryside there are inadequate numbers offering limited variety of facilities,” explained the Senator.
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