Kenya: City Hall On the Spot for Slow, Shoddy Road Construction

12 August 2019

City Hall is on the spot over slow rate of implementation of projects with most failing to kick off as others stall yet contractors are paid millions of shillings despite some doing shoddy jobs.

A report by Nairobi County Assembly Public Accounts Committee (PAC) revealed the county's Transport and Public Works department had initiated 25 projects in the 2016/2017 financial year at more than Sh1.3 billion. However, six of them worth more than Sh265 million were yet to start 19 months later.

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