[kictanet] Queries to Engineer Kidenda (Midnight today is cut off)

[James Mbugua]

Solomon

The said road, Waiyaki Way, either falls under the Kenya Urban Roads
Authority or Kenha.

The said contractor is one SS Mehta who without fear or favour I can
call an unreformed cowboy contractor of the KANU era and whose CV
reads like all the don'ts of a contractor's code of ethics, if one
exists.

The roads budget in this country has gotten so big(last year it was
Sh80billion and this year it is proposed at Sh95billion) that
contractors to be given jobs have ran out leading to the
rehabilitation of the likes of Mehta and Kudan Singh (another cowboy
who was recently kicked out of the Gikambura-Mutarakwa road he had
been building since 2007 and has now clinched another contract for the
Voi-Wundanyi road - where if form holds true, he is about to leave a
lot of grief).

Franklin Bett recently published contractors manuals on how the
government will expect road repairs to be conducted. A copy has not
been given to SS Mehta it seems.

Mbuguss


On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 1:05 PM, Solomon Mbũrũ Kamau
<solo.mburu at gmail.com> wrote:
> Listers,
>
> This is an important step in making our roads, safe.
>
> My questions are as follows:
>
> How are these roads categorized, in terms those managed by the local
> authorities, central government and, if possible, those ones that are
> internationally managed?
> Why does the government ever award road contracts to companies that do not
> do their works professionally?
> There is a contractor on who was awarded a contract to rehabilitate
> Nairobi-Naivasha  Road ( between the former Museum Hill roundabout and
> Rironi)  and they've dug a whole stretch of the road, about a kilometer and
> a half. There are dug up patches everywhere that drivers have to be extra
> cautious. Is there anything the Authority (assuming the said section is
> under Eng. Kidenda's Authority) can do to makes sure their are mechanisms in
> place for the contractor to does not put the lives of rod users at risk?
>
> Regards,
>
>
> Solomon
>
>
> On 18 May 2012 11:29, <otieno.barrack at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Thanks Edith for capturing salient issues and GG for keeping us in touch
>> with the engineer and his team, let's make work easy for the Engineer by
>> posing direct questions, I hope Dr. Aligula and MM might also raise any
>> other issues that are of concern to the research team.
>>
>> Best Regards
>> Sent from my BlackBerry®
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