Roads are only missed in their absence.
Joel Mwangi, a driver in Kerugoya, the largest town in Kenya’s west-central Kirinyaga County – a region known for its agricultural production given the fertile land – says that new tarmac roads have made life that much easier.
“The Chinese have done well in that sense,” he says. “The roads are very okay here. You can now travel the 20 kilometres from Kerugoya to the centre of town in 20 minutes, which used to take up to an hour.”
The roads have eased supply chain logistics for food growers and shippers alike and are a big step up from its predecessors, pot-hole studded roads that wash out with seasonal rains. Many openly credit the Chinese for such development.
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