The MCAs had at the end of last year and the turn of this year asked to submit priority infrastructure projects to the NMS for implementation. They complained that even after doing so, the commencement of the said projects was taking longer than expected. “It is a great concern to the members who submitted the projects that the commencement of the implementation of the said projects is taking longer than expected despite the passage and assent of the Appropriations Act,” said Ngei Ward MCA Redson Otieno. Further, the MCA said that once NMS took over four key Nairobi County government functions of health, transport, public works, utilities and ancillary services, and county planning and development services in March last year, resident engineers who were supervising ongoing projects in the wards were withdrawn.