60 road projects worth Sh1.7b abandoned by contractors due to lack of payment

Pedestrians make a leap on outer ring road to cross over the road to the other side, at times some of them fall as they miss the right place to step on. June 6, 2017. (David Gichuru, Standard)

Sixty road projects worth about Sh1.7 billion have been abandoned by contractors due to lack of payment.

City Hall’s transport and infrastructure chief officer, Frederick Karanja, said yesterday that construction of some of the roads had stopped.