Residents of an upmarket area of Kiserian town in Kajiado are unhappy after a contractor blocked their road with murram.
The 1.5km road that links ACK and Migaa estates is under construction by the county government which subcontracted a company to upgrade it.
Residents say the contractor cleared the bushes on it, put heaps of murram on the middle and moved out before spreading and compacting it. This has made the road impassable.
"This is the only road we use to access Kiserian town, schools and hospitals,” the chairman of the ACK-Migaa Association, Maurice Onyango said on Sunday.
Onyango said residents are forced to walk with their school-going children to Kiserian-Magadi Road to seek public transport.
“This contractor is risking our lives and those of our children, who leave school late in the evening. Our members cannot even take their sick to hospital because the road is blocked,” Onyango said.
Former KQ boss, Titus Naikuni, who also lives in the area wondered why a county government contractor could block the road and leave before completion.
When the Star contacted the county government contractor, Collins Saitaga on the phone, he accused a section of residents of “harassing my machine operators” on site.
“I have not gone anywhere and I have not switched off my phone as they claim.
"The truth of the matter is that, when we moved to the site last week and cleared the bushes at my cost, some members started questioning the quality of the murram we had started taking there,” Saitaga said.
The contractor said after his workers were harassed by the residents, he reported the matter to concerned authorities at the county government.
(Edited by Bilha Makokha)
