President William Ruto will on Friday preside over the ground-breaking of Shauri Moyo affordable housing project in Nairobi.

This will be Ruto's third ground raking of the AHP in the county.

So far, Ruto has commissioned the AHPs in Mukuru Met Site and Kibera in Soweto B.

He also launched the Mavoko AHP in Machakos County.

The Sh10 billion project seeks to provide more than 3,000 housing units, in support of the Government’s agenda on the provision of affordable housing for Kenyans.

The Shauri Moyo launch comes after the president returned from a three-day tour of France and Senegal.

In November last year, Ruto announced that 3,000 acres of Nairobi public land will be used for the affordable housing programme.

He said his administration would prioritise the project to provide residents with affordable homes.

“We are going to work with the Nairobi county government and all the other agencies so that these 3,000 acres, we can at least do between 400,000 and 500,000 housing units that will support the people of Nairobi, as we do it elsewhere,” Ruto added.

The National Treasury allocated the affordable housing programme a budget of Sh27.2 billion in the current financial year.

At the start of his second term, former President Uhuru Kenyatta announced the Big 4 Agenda, which included the construction of some 500,000 affordable housing units.

Nairobi is at the centre of this project and Ruto has shown keen interest in continuing where his former boss left.