The much touted and highly publicised proposed Bungoma dual carriage way has stalled amid chaos and confusion with no works going on three months since Governor Wycliffe Wangamati handed over to the contractor Jiangizi Zhongmei Construction Group From China after launching the project.
It is emerging that the executive member in charge of public works and construction Collins Mukhongo together with his chief officer Maurice Marango have continuous misled the governor and by the extension the public of Bungoma that all is well about the project when they are aware that the controller of budget rejected their proposal to implement the project without the authority of the national controller of budget after failing to obtain a go ahead from the attorney general.
Wycliffe Wangamati
Our widespread investigations have established that despite having carried out public participation sessions the members of the public in Bungoma were not told the truth about the true situation pertaining the road.
Traders at the open air roadside Chepkube market and shopkeepers plus other owners of buildings in town are lamenting that they were unnecessarily disrupted by the two officials who promised them immediate implementation of the project which has left them in a sort of quagmire. It is instructive to note that most building owners were pressurised to demolish part of their structures in order to give way to the upcoming road.
Lusike Musamali a sweet potato and cassava dealer at the market said most of the small scale traders are being subjected to relocation which has not just materialised in full hence their lives continue to hang in balance, Governor Wangamati has to deal with those officials who are hellbent on misleading him at the expense of innocent tax payers and traders at the market.
Last year CEC Collins Mukhongo and governor Wangamati sought out Kenha to be allowed to build the road and although Kenha agreed in principal that the county government could undertake the project, it was basically agreed that the money the county will use to build the road could be eventually be refunded to the county government.
