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The Sh1.15 billion Kibra interchange was due this month. In January 2025 it was 21% built.
The Kibra – Southern Bypass interchange is a 2km stretch of road costing more than Sh1.15 billion. Work started in September 2020. The stated completion date is September 2026 – this month.
In January 2025, according to the Kenya News Agency, the project was 21% complete.
Getting from 21% to finished in twenty months would need roughly four times the pace of the first four years.
The contractor is Ogle Construction Company Limited and the client is the Kenya Urban Roads Authority. The scope includes a dual carriageway, service roads, underpasses and overpasses, bus bays, bridges, pedestrian bridges and footpaths, with slip roads linking towards Ngong Road and works along Lang'ata Road.
At Sh1.15 billion for 2km, that is about Sh575 million per kilometre.
The pedestrian bridges and footpaths are the part that matters most to people walking out of Kibera, and they are the part that is easiest to check on foot.
KNN has asked KURA for the current percentage completion, whether Ogle Construction has been granted an extension of time, and whether the contract sum has risen above Sh1.15 billion through variations.
One thing to be clear about: the Sh67 million Lang'ata water pipeline commissioned in December serves Onyonka, Otiende and Sun Valley. Kibera is not on the list of beneficiaries, and it should not be reported as a Kibera project.
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The Kibra–Southern Bypass interchange is a 2km stretch of road costing more than Sh1.15 billion. Work started in September 2020. The stated completion date is September 2026 — this month.
In January 2025, according to the Kenya News Agency, the project was 21% complete.
Getting from 21% to finished in twenty months would need roughly four times the pace of the first four years.
The contractor is Ogle Construction Company Limited and the client is the Kenya Urban Roads Authority. The scope includes a dual carriageway, service roads, underpasses and overpasses, bus bays, bridges, pedestrian bridges and footpaths, with slip roads linking towards Ngong Road and works along Lang’ata Road.
At Sh1.15 billion for 2km, that is about Sh575 million per kilometre.
The pedestrian bridges and footpaths are the part that matters most to people walking out of Kibera, and they are the part that is easiest to check on foot.
KNN has asked KURA for the current percentage completion, whether Ogle Construction has been granted an extension of time, and whether the contract sum has risen above Sh1.15 billion through variations.
One thing to be clear about: the Sh67 million Lang’ata water pipeline commissioned in December serves Onyonka, Otiende and Sun Valley. Kibera is not on the list of beneficiaries, and it should not be reported as a Kibera project.
KNN Newsroom is the staff byline for stories written, rewritten and edited at the Kibra News Network desk. Where a story credits an outside outlet, the original source is linked at the foot of the piece.
