{"id":130651,"date":"2026-02-11T08:02:48","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T08:02:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/garissa-airstrip-upgrade-3-months-ahead-of-schedule-president-ruto\/"},"modified":"2026-02-11T08:02:48","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T08:02:48","slug":"garissa-airstrip-upgrade-3-months-ahead-of-schedule-president-ruto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/garissa-airstrip-upgrade-3-months-ahead-of-schedule-president-ruto\/","title":{"rendered":"Garissa Airstrip upgrade 3 months ahead of schedule: President Ruto"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>GARISSA, Kenya, Feb 11 \u2014 The upgrading of the Garissa Airstrip will be completed in March, three months ahead of schedule.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>President William Ruto said the project will unlock the vast economic opportunities in Northern Kenya.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFencing has been completed while the new terminal is 80 per cent done,\u201d he said as he embarked on a tour of the northeastern region.<\/p>\n<p>The President spoke on Wednesday in Garissa during an inspection of the project.<\/p>\n<p>The new airstrip will have its runway expanded and upgraded to accommodate larger and more aircrafts.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis will boost passenger traffic by over 200,000 a year,\u201d he said.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GARISSA, Kenya, Feb 11 \u2014 The upgrading of the Garissa Airstrip will be completed in March, three months ahead of schedule. President William Ruto said the project will unlock the vast economic opportunities in Northern Kenya. \u201cFencing has been completed while the new terminal is 80 per cent done,\u201d he said as he embarked on [&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-130651","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\/130651","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=130651"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130651\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}