Kajiado County has leased road works machinery from the national government under the Mechanical and Transport Fund to upscale road infrastructure in the area.
According to the county Governor Joseph ole Lenku, they have leased the machinery to do 782.5 kilometres of road works worth Sh160 million.
The scope of work will include opening up of inaccessible places, murramming, gravelling and grading of earthen roads, currently in a deplorable state due to the heavy rains witnessed in the county in April last year.
While commissioning the machinery in Kajiado, Lenku noted that the county government has allocated Sh112 million, while each of the 25 wards in Kajiado has set aside Sh2 million to lease the equipment.
