Kisumu county to spend Sh600 million on construction of roads

A cyclist on a muddy section of Kibuye market road in Kisumu. [Collins Oduor, Standard]

The county will spend Sh600 million to build new roads and repair old ones in the 2018-19 financial year, documents from the county roads department reveal.

Of this amount, Sh194 million will come from the Kenya Roads Board (KRB), while Sh406m is an allocation to the roads department in the county budget estimates.