How pioneer road almost led the country to bankruptcy

Famous MacKinnon road in Mombasa. [Courtesy Sygic]

Roads and scandals are like Siamese twins in Kenya. Apparently, Kenya's original scandal emanated from its oldest road which still serves as the country's main artery from where all Kenya's major towns have streamed from.

Every administration it also seems has been dogged with controversies over compensation of land where main highways and roads are located. When Britain bought the land mass now called Kenya from the broke Imperial British East African Company for PS200,000, (Sh38.9 million) the bureaucrats made a fatal mistake.