Northern counties miss out on road development

Kenya Roads Board Executive Director Jacob Ruwa speaks to the press during the release of the State Of Our Roads 2018 report in Nairobi yesterday.[Wilberforce Okwiri, Standard]

Kenya’s northern half appears to have missed out on the infrastructure development wave other parts of the country experienced over the last decade.

The vast majority of the population in the counties in the north has no access to basic roads. A new report shows that less than three people out of 10 live within two kilometres of any form of road in all counties in Northern and Eastern regions.