{"id":11646,"date":"2024-03-11T08:03:09","date_gmt":"2024-03-11T08:03:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/index.php\/2024\/03\/11\/govt-mulls-airstrip-fund-to-establish-a-flight-strip-per-county-for-enhanced-air-travel\/"},"modified":"2024-03-11T08:03:09","modified_gmt":"2024-03-11T08:03:09","slug":"govt-mulls-airstrip-fund-to-establish-a-flight-strip-per-county-for-enhanced-air-travel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/govt-mulls-airstrip-fund-to-establish-a-flight-strip-per-county-for-enhanced-air-travel\/","title":{"rendered":"Govt mulls Airstrip Fund to establish a flight strip per county for enhanced air travel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>NAIROBI, Kenya, Mar 11 \u2014\u00a0Transport Cabinet Secretary Kipchumba Murkomen says the Ministry is working on a policy proposal to establish an Airstrip Fund.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Speaking in Migori County over the weekend, Murkomen said a special purpose\u00a0levy will enable each county to have at least one airstrip for easy air transport accessibility.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are working on a policy to propose an airstrip fund to ensure that every county has an airstrip and then later for more viable counties, they will have more than one airstrip, to make sure that counties are more accessible and of course for other counties that are hilly and so forth they will be served in the neighbourhood or nearby county,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The Treasury in its 2023\/24 budget plan set aside Sh727 million\u00a0for the expansion and rehabilitation of airstrips.<\/p>\n<p>Transport CS disclosed that the government had set aside Sh211 million for the\u00a0rehabilitation works at Migori Airstrip which will involve full reconstruction of the runway, and set up of a new apron, security fence, and patrol road.<\/p>\n<p>The Kenya Airports Authority (KAA) is eyeing tourists from Tanzania and also hopes to ease pressure on travelers to South Nyanza who currently rely on Kisumu International Airport.<\/p>\n<p>The state corporation that is charged with the responsibility of providing and managing a coordinated system of airports\u00a0currently runs five international airports, five domestic airports, and nine airstrips.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NAIROBI, Kenya, Mar 11 \u2014\u00a0Transport Cabinet Secretary Kipchumba Murkomen says the Ministry is working on a policy proposal to establish an Airstrip Fund. Speaking in Migori County over the weekend, Murkomen said a special purpose\u00a0levy will enable each county to have at least one airstrip for easy air transport accessibility. \u201cWe are working on a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11646","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11646"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11646\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}