Residents of Ziwa Ward in Soy Sub-County, have a reason to smile following the completion of various road projects.
So far, the county has completed grading of approximately 20 kilometres and gravelling of 5 Kilometres of new roads in an ongoing program by Governor Jonathan Bii’s administration in the area.
The County through the Department of Roads, Transport and Public Works is implementing a road construction program across all 30 wards to transform and boost the local economy.
County Executive Committee Member for Roads Eng. Joseph Lagat says more roads are in the pipeline across all wards.
Road networks spur development
He says besides opening up new areas for production, road accessibility will also help in the overall development of the county.
Some of the newly opened roads in Ziwa Ward include Legebet-Dip, Siring’ana, Koria as well as Kiborokwa.
In Kiplombe ward, the county has improved Transformer-Kiplombe Road, Highlands Educational Centre-Baharini Police Station, Railways Crossing Road, Transformer-Yator Road and Kambi Marakwet Road which has since been gravelled.
“We have completed grading work. Work is still in progress and we expect to start gravelling work immediately for the whole project to be complete as soon as possible,” Roads, Transport and Public Works Chief Officer, Eng. Abraham Kiptalam said on Tuesday.
He spoke during the inspection of ongoing road works in Ziwa ward, Soy Sub County.
Locals have welcomed the new county plan to improve the road network.
They say it has already helped ease the transportation of farm produce to the market.
“The improved roads will make us buy a vehicle that we can use to ferry maize to the cereals board during harvest season,” said Emily Chumba, a resident of Tartar village in Ziwa Ward.
“For a long time, travelling from one place to the other has been taking us many hours because we didn’t have roads. This has enabled farmers in this area to easily ferry their produce to the markets,” she added.
