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Residents of Acacia in Kitengela, Kajiado County are up in arms over what they term shoddy work done by a contractor on a main feeder road in the area.

Agitated residents accuse the contractor of doing shoddy work despite being allocated Sh4 million by the county government of Kajiado to murram the four-kilometre road.

The locals who held peaceful protests yesterday said the state of the road is hard to use.

“Taxpayers’ money has been thrown to the drain. The contractor has not applied any murram on this road. A few lorries of dust and stones cannot amount to Sh4 million allocated for road upgrading. When we realised the contractor was patching the road using substandard material instead of grading, we reached out to our leaders who did not respond to stop the shoddy work. The road had no signage to show the works intended to be done. The contractor has since left saying he is done with work leaving the road worse than it was before, “said Francis Marachi, a resident.

The contractor is said to have poured several lorries of un-compacted stones and fine dust to the chagrin of road users who can now barely use the road due to dust.

Residents say the road is being used as a cash cow by rogue county officials since money is allocated to the road every year but no substantive work is done.

They now want the parliamentary Public Accounts Committee and the Director of Criminal Investigations (DCI) to investigate the annual allocations done on the road whose state remains poor.