Ndindi Nyoro claims NSSF funds financing Nairobi–Nakuru Highway expansion
By Mabonga Makhanu, September 6, 2025Ndindi Nyoro has stated that it is NSSF money being used to fund the construction of the Nairobi–Nakuru highway.
While speaking during an event in Nairobi on Saturday, September 6, 2025, the lawmaker raised concern over the country’s debt situation, which he said has escalated to Ksh12 trillion. According to Ndindi, the government has borrowed three times in just three years what former President Mwai Kibaki borrowed in his entire 10-year tenure.
The MP further explained that the Ksh12 trillion figure does not include other debts categorised as securitisation. He gave the example of the Nairobi–Nakuru highway, whose construction is being funded by NSSF money under a public-private partnership (PPP).
“Even the expansion of the Nairobi-Nakuru Highway is not part of the Ksh12 trillion; it’s NSSF money being used as a PP to build that road,” Nyoro stated.
Toll fee
Elsewhere, Nakuru West MP Samuel Arama stated that motorists will be paying a toll fee of Ksh1500 to move from Nairobi to Nakuru after the completion of the above road.
While speaking during an interview aired on local TV on Saturday, September 6, 2025, the MP said that upon completion, the Chinese company tasked with rehabilitating the road will introduce a toll fee of Ksh1,500 for motorists travelling from Nairobi to Nakuru, similar to the charges on the Nairobi Motorway from Westlands to Jomo Kenyatta International Airport.
Arama, who is also a member of the Transport Committee in the National Assembly, revealed that under former President Uhuru Kenyatta’s regime, the government had engaged a French company to handle the project.
However, the firm had proposed charging road users over Ksh3,000 in toll fees for the next 35 years along the Nairobi–Nakuru route via the Rironi–Mau Summit road.
Contract terms
When the current regime assumed power, the contract was terminated to protect Kenyans from the high costs. According to Arama, the termination came with a hefty penalty of Ksh 5 billion, which the Ruto administration committed to pay.
“Kutoka Nairobi hadi Nakuru ilikuwa ulipe kama Ksh3000 for the next 35 years; wakati the new administration iliangalia, wakasema, wacha wabadilishe, wakaenda, wakabadilisha. You know the contract had already been signed by the former government, and the contract terms were, ‘If you want to terminate the contract, you pay Ksh5 billion,’” Arama stated.