adminThe road agency’s human resources and administration manager, Mr Precious Murove, said the move was aimed at strengthening the capacity of local authorities to maintain the country’s roads.
“Instead of disbursing funds this year, our major focus is on disbursing equipment,” he said. “The annual disbursements alone to councils are not enough and whatever revenue we disburse to councils is not translating into anything significant and meaningful on the ground.”
He said a huge chunk of funds distributed to councils was spent on equipment hire, leaving road authorities with little or nothing to purchase other materials for road maintenance.
“Zinara wants to re-capacitate road authorities by acquiring road construction and maintenance of equipment.”
Zinara disbursed a total of US$27 million last year. The authority has acquired 40 state-of-the-art graders to be distributed to rural councils for maintenance of gravel roads ahead of the harmonised elections.
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