The government will construct 1,000 hostel rooms and their amenities at Turkana University College as part of the affordable housing programme.
At the same time, proposals have been made to construct an additional 700 housing units in Lodwar and 300 others in Kakuma.
However, members of the public have been asked to turn up for a public participation forum to be held at Lodwar youth polytechnic in Lodwar this Saturday April 27 to share their views.
These revelations were made by the county housing director Brian Kangogo at the county service delivery committee meeting in Lodwar.
The meeting was chaired by County Commissioner Julius Kavita and attended by heads of department of various government departments and agencies.
Meanwhile, concerns were raised over the poor state of some of the civil servants’ houses and recommendations for an increase in renovation funds made.
Although Turkana County has 482 housing units meant to accommodate national and county government staff, these are adequate for all staff in the county hence the need for more houses.
At the same time, the forum was informed of plans to review rents for houses since the last review was effected many years ago.
At the same the government plans to construct one market in every constituency as part of the economic stimulus.
“The construction of Lokichar market has already commenced and the contractor is already on site,” Kangogo said.
By Peter Gitonga
