Chinese Government provides grant worth 1.5 billion Ksh for JKIA-Uhuru Highway-Gigiri Road Rehabilitation and Expansion Project

According to the Kenya National Assembly Official Record (Hansard) from July 6, 2006, the Chinese government provided a grant of 1.5 billion KSH to Kenya for improvement of the road from the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (JKIA) to the United Nations Environmental Programmes (UNEP) headquarters in Gigiri. China Road and Bridge Corporation was chosen to carry out the works, including an additional lane. The road is 22km long. The project was officially launched in July 2007, and the construction period was from Aug. 2007 to Jun. 2009. The project is completed according to a Vision 2030 document. The same project is listed as "Rehabilitation and expansion of the JKIA - Uhuru Highway - Gigiri Road" in the Kenya Ugong road Widening Plan Preparatory Survey from the Japanese International Cooperation Agency (JICA), with China's grant listed as 25 million USD. A separate document from a Kenyan blog calls the project the "JKIA-Uhuru Highway-Gigiri road," and reports that China had initially promised to provide Sh5.3 billion for the project, but this had been scaled down to only Sh2.2 billion. It also lists the implementing agency as Shengli Engineering and Consulting Company of China, not CRBC. In response to these conflicting reports, the transaction amount has been recorded as the initial 1.5 billion referenced in the Official Record of the Kenyan Assembly to avoid over-reporting the funding amount.

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