President Uhuru Kenyatta yesterday created the Nairobi Metropolitan Area Transport Authority to address transport challenges facing Nairobi, Kiambu, Kajiado, Machakos and Murang’a counties. He said NAMATA will provide a comprehensive and dynamic platform for addressing the decades-old challenges in the transport sector, which has created transport and business operation challenges within the metropolitan area. The metropolitan area is made up of the five counties. “These elements are part of the administration’s wider plan of improving Kenya’s transport infrastructure as a spur for social and economic development,” Uhuru said. The President expects NAMATA to address the gap and provide the Metropolitan Area with a world-class public transport system.

Source: The Star February 10, 2017 21:33 UTC