Parliament Tower, a 28-storey building designed to house offices of Kenyan Members of the National Assembly and Senate, is scheduled to be handed over in July after a six-year delay.
According to the Clerk of the National Assembly, the long delay was occasioned by misunderstandings among the project team. The delay was also partly triggered by an audit query by the Auditor General who raised concerns over the fact the project was incomplete despite millions of shillings injected into it.
The Parliamentary Service Commission entered a contract to build the multi-storey office block to accommodate the 416 members in the Senate and the National Assembly in 2012 but the slow pace could see the lawmakers end their term in August without setting foot in it.
The project was to be concluded in January 2018, but the completion date was revised to August 23, 2020. – Capital News
