President Uhuru Kenyatta on Wednesday re-visited Huduma Namba talks after he made an impromptu visit to inspect the ongoing Housing and infrastructure projects in Nairobi.
The president had visited Park Road Estate in Ngara where the Government is building 1370 houses with the first phase of 228 units expected to be ready by September this year.
The housing project is part of the Government’s plan to construct 500,000 affordable housing units by 2022 under the Housing Pillar of the Big 4 Agenda.
The President who was accompanied by Transport and Infrastructure Cabinet Secretary James Macharia and his Treasury counterpart Henry Rotich encouraged the contractor to ensure everything is done according to standard.
He said the project will be used as a pilot and will be replicated in all other towns in the country.
“This project will be used as an example for all the other projects which we will do in other towns like Mombasa, Kisumu, Eldoret,” said the President.
Earlier, the President inspected the ongoing construction of the Waiyaki Way-Red Hill link road. Transport and Infrastructure CS took the President on the tour and briefed him on several other roads that are under construction including the second phase of Ngong Road dualling.
The Parkroad Estate housing project in Ngara is part of the Government’s plan to construct 500,000 #AffordableHousing units by 2022 under the pillar of the #Big4Agenda. The first phase of 228 units is expected to be ready by September this year @HousingUrbanKE @BomaYanguKE pic.twitter.com/RtbEufIgRa
— State House Kenya (@StateHouseKenya) May 22, 2019
It is while at Ngara inspecting the housing project that President Kenyatta encouraged the workers to ensure they enroll for Huduma Namba. The Head of State instructed the Nairobi Regional Commissioner to ensure registration clerks are deployed to the construction site on Thursday to ensure all the construction workers are registered.
Uhuru said that this will ensure that no worker or any Kenyan is left out of this important exercise that might see all those who failed to register miss out on government services.
President Kenyatta inspected the ongoing construction of the Waiyaki Way-Red Hill link road. The President was also briefed on the progress of several other road constructions including the second phase of Ngong Road dualling @TransportKE pic.twitter.com/7E8CZuiiaL
— State House Kenya (@StateHouseKenya) May 22, 2019
Interior cabinet secretary Fred Matiang’i had announced earlier last week that the government was not intending to extend the registration exercise but the decision was later reversed by President Uhuru on Friday after a large turn out was witnessed across several registration centers in the country.
Uhuru extended the exercise for one more week which is expected to end on Saturday 25th. Many analysts have read a sinister motive behind the government’s tricks to forcefully have all Kenyans register for the exercise with some arguing that the government is planning to manipulate their personal data for self gains.
Many have vowed to stay put and avoid the exercise altogether with Matiang’i warning of dire consequences for those who will miss it and planning to use government services in the future.