Awestruck residents witness county's first ever road tarmacking

A grader rolls into Wajir town to begin work on the town’s first ever tarmacked road. [Photo: Joe Ombuor/Standard]

Wajir, Kenya: For a people who have had to imagine what tarmac looks and feels like, news that the dust-washed Wajir town would soon get a facelift and boast tarmacked roads bordered on fiction as only a privileged few have seen, let alone walked on tarmac.

The only stretch of tarmac in the 661,941-square kilometres county - the third largest in the country - can be found on the 3.8km-long runway at Wajir International Airport.