Kiir to inaugurate Juba-Terekeka highway tomorrow

JUBA – President Salva Kiir Mayardit will on Monday morning commission the Juba-Terekeka highway for use, according to the national government information minister Michael Makuei Lueth, nearly four years after its construction begun.

Makuei who is also the government spokesman made the revelation while speaking to journalists following a cabinet meeting at the ministry of cabinet affairs on Friday in Juba and also said that the president will launch the phase two of construction from Terekeka to Yirol.

“This one is information, Juba-Terekeka Road will be commissioned by the President on Monday, 12 December, and he will also launch phase two of the road from Terekeka to Yirol,” Makuei said.

The construction of road was started in 2019 after the government contracted Shandong Hi-Speed, a Chinese road company, to contract a 392-KM connecting the country’s capital with the Bahr el Ghazal region.

The government is paying the Chinese road firm in form of crude oil.