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After Thika road, Chinese should build estate roads

It is an open secret that local road contractors have failed this country in its quest to become a middle-income economy.

Most roads built by the contractors are not worth talking about. They degenerate as soon as they are completed. In fact, most contractors start to re-patch sections they have built even before the work stretches more than a kilometre. The just concluded long rain season helped to ‘peel back the mask’ on the work of the contractors.

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