This, the non-governmental organisation said, showed the unfair distribution of paved roads in a study that uses paved roads per square kilometre of land area, to measure access of roads. “People living in Nairobi have the best access to paved roads with 3,309 people per kilometre while the bottom 10 counties have an average of 164,862 people per kilometre of paved road,” the IBPK said in its report. The top 10 counties, the report said, have a kilometre of paved roads for every 8.3 kilometres square of land. Lower Eastern and North Rift have the highest share of unpaved roads at 15 and 12 per cent respectively. While 27 per cent of unpaved roads are in the two regions, they only received seven per cent of the road development budget allocations.

Source: Daily Nation November 14, 2017 11:15 UTC