The Vision 2030 Delivery Board has
confirmed that flagship Vision 2030 projects at Jomo Kenyatta International
Airport are progressing on schedule.
Speaking during a projects progress
assessment tour of the KAA Vision 2030 Flagship projects at the Jomo Kenyatta
International Airport by the Vision Delivery Board of Directors, Kenya Airports
Authority (KAA) Managing Director Lucy Mbugua assured the board that the project
works are moving on well.
Among other projects, the KAA Managing
Director, Ms Mbugua explained, Kenya Airports Authority had already embarked on
a rapid results programme to beef up security at all its facilities countrywide
in the face of the prevailing terror threats.
During the tour, the VDB Directors led by
Chairman Dr James Mwangi witnessed the on-going construction works for the new
JKIA Terminal Unit 4, which is, scheduled for use on 7th July 2014.
“Once complete, the new Unit 4 will enhance
the airport’s capacity to handle the growing volume of passengers who use the
airport each year. It will handle both domestic and international flights and
allow JKIA to handle 9 million passengers up from the
current 6 six million
passengers,” She said.
On the Greenfield Terminal status, Ms.
Mbugua disclosed that the project contractor had already commenced detailed
design and preliminary excavation works. The on-going excavation works at the
rate of 10,000 cubic metres per day are; expected to, be completed by end of
June to pave way for the building works, which will be undertaken in 36months.
On his part, Dr Mwangi commended KAA for
maintaining its development pace for the national airports and airfields
development projects. The new airport developments and upgrades, the VDB
chairperson noted will help unlock the national economic development programmes
in line with Vision 2030 ideals.
“As a key foundation, Vision 2030 aspires
for a country firmly interconnected through a network of roads, railways, ports
and airports,” he said. And added: “By 2030, it will become impossible to refer
to any region of our country as “remote”. Furthermore, to ensure that the main
projects under the economic pillar are implemented, investment in the nation’s
infrastructure will be given the highest priority and necessary support.”
Besides JKIA, development and
rehabilitation works are currently on going at other Airports in Mombasa,
Kisumu, Malindi and Lamu.
The construction of a new runway at the
Nyeri Airstrip is already complete as are other works at the Embu, lodwar and
Kakamega Airstrips. At the Homabay Airstrip, Construction works for a new
runway, taxiway& apron are currently ongoing.
Geared at transforming Kenya into a middle
income, globally competitive and industrialised country with a high quality of
life in the next 16 years, Vision 2030, is, anchored on three pillars. These
include the Social, Economic and Political and an auxiliary pillar known as the
Enablers and Macro Pillar, which covers projects, interventions and initiatives
whose impact ultimately cuts across all the other three pillars.
Within the last five years, the Vision 2030
Delivery Secretariat, has successfully managed to co-ordinate the rollout of
key flagship projects covering the economic, social and political pillars
including the ground-breaking of the Standard gauge railway, Kenya Constitution
2010 and a raft of education and agricultural sector policy reforms geared at
fostering national development.
Other major flagship projects recently
rolled out include; establishment of the Lamu Port Southern-Sudan Ethiopia
Transport (LAPSSET) Corridor Development Authority to manage the implementation
of the LAPSSET project on behalf of the government of Kenya.
To ensure the timely implementation of all
flagship projects, the VDS has also managed to embed Vision 2030 projects into
the Government performance contracting platform through the inclusion of
performance indicators. This inclusion is, geared at ensuring that all state
institutions focus on the national development agenda Vision 2030.
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