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Wajir welcome town’s first tarmac road, 50 years after independence

A grader rolls into Wajir town to begin work for the town’s ?rst-ever tarmacked road.

Wajir County will have its first stretch of tarmac road in due course after Governor Ahmed Abdullahi launched the eagerly awaited project in the northern Kenya town recently.

Heavy construction machinery rolled out to start work on a eight-kilometre stretch of road that is projected to cost Sh389.4 million.

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