Kitui’s Ithookwe airstrip will from June next year be accessed through a tarmac road. The county government has invested Sh133 million in the project.
“Visitors and residents will no longer access the airstrip from Kitui town on a bumpy and dusty all-weather road. The improvement to bitumen works will be completed by June,” said Lands executive Gitonga Nkunda.
Nkunda said the tarmacking of the four-and-a-half kilometre airstrip adds to the tarmacking of Kitui town’s Mjini to Stadium road and the main road in Mwingi at a cost of Sh53 million. Nkunda briefed the media after inspecting roadworks in Kitui Central, Kitui West, Kitui Rural and Kitui South subcounties on Tuesday.