The Motorists Association of Kenya has called on the government to prioritise local engineers, graduates, and skilled workers in the construction of major highways, warning that continued reliance on foreign firms was denying Kenyans jobs and economic growth.
In a strongly worded statement issued on Monday, the association criticised the government's preference for awarding road projects to private foreign operators, who they said would continue to toll and profit from infrastructure that should instead serve as a unifying and uplifting national asset. "Kenya is not poor in capacity.
We have skilled graduates in engineering, surveying, architecture, and technical trades who remain jobless, even as our leaders sign away projects to foreign firms.
We have the machinery and equipment-bulldozers, graders, rollers, tippers, shovels, and locally available technical expertise.
