Accord local companies fair chance to compete for contracts

A section of the Nairobi Expressway. [David Gichuru, Standard]Caption

Kenya's infrastructure projects are often implemented by foreign companies, with contracts worth significant amounts of money being allocated to these companies.

Unfortunately, most of the funds remitted back to their countries of origin, leaving the local economy to suffer. It is unfortunate that the reasons given for this is that local companies neither have the financial nor technical capacity. This has created a perception that local companies have no capacity and may not implement as required.