{"id":9597,"date":"2022-10-28T09:51:04","date_gmt":"2022-10-28T09:51:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/?p=9597"},"modified":"2022-10-28T09:51:08","modified_gmt":"2022-10-28T09:51:08","slug":"president-ruto-to-launch-7-2b-to-finish-traffic-jam-in-nairobi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/?p=9597","title":{"rendered":"PRESIDENT RUTO TO LAUNCH 7.2B TO FINISH TRAFFIC JAM IN NAIROBI."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>President william ruto and his government lead by rigathi gachagua have revealed that they are on a process to implement a 7.2Billion that will help reduce traffic jam in the capital Nairobi for good. Through a statement released on Thursday, October 27, his deputy, Rigathi Gachagua, revealed that the government was at an advanced stage of concluding talks with a US corporation seeking to bankroll the project.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Millenium Challenge Corporation, Gachagua stated, bought into the government&#8217;s idea of revamping the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kenyans.co.ke\/news\/80942-washington-ochieng-uk-based-expert-tasked-fixing-nairobi-traffic-jam\">Nairobi transport system<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The grant is set to be channelled into different projects in the city, including the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kenyans.co.ke\/news\/80716-inside-murkomens-plan-transform-kenyan-roads-ease-traffic-snarl-ups\">railway network, different roads, and even airports<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>President Ruto&#8217;s government is also poised to use the money to revive stalled projects in Nairobi, led by Governor Johnson Sakaja and improve the public transport system.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Gachagua publicised the deal after holding talks with the US ambassador to Kenya, Meg Whitman, and other top government officials from President Joe Biden&#8217;s administration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President william ruto and his government lead by rigathi gachagua have revealed that they are on a process to implement a 7.2Billion that will help reduce traffic jam in the capital Nairobi for good. Through a statement released on Thursday, October 27, his deputy, Rigathi Gachagua, revealed that the government was at an advanced stage [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":9598,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-political-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/download-12.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9597"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9597\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9599,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9597\/revisions\/9599"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}