Transport at Ranen trading center in Awendo remained paralysed for on Sunday after motorcyclists planted bananas and sugarcane on the feeder roads, protesting poor state of roads.
The motorcyclists also paralysed tax-collection activities after they invaded toll stations along Raneni-Chamgiwadu and Raneni-Dede feeder weather roads.
Representatives of the riders claimed the county government had totally neglected the roads and that they were suffering heavy losses due to the bad infrastructural facilities.
The chairman of Ranen Bodaboda Riders Association Salim Babu complained that heavy rains pounding the area had rendered the roads impassable as their business stalled.
“We cannot operate in this route with this kind of roads. We pay taxes and we need the roads repaired so that we can run our business smoothly. What are the leaders doing in office if they can not repair the roads?” said Babu.
It took Administration Police officers from Rongo about 30 minutes to talk to the rowdy riders in bid to convince them against planting more bananas on the road.
Ashton Otieno, a community-policing officer in the area said there were many accidents that were as a result of the poor roads.
Otieno said they have witnessed so many accidents around the place ever since the rains started and that alone cannot be tolerated because they are equally taxpayers who should be served with better infrastructural facilities.
However, even after the police convinced them to remove the barriers they had planted on the road, the riders decided to engage the security officers in a cat and mouse game by replacing the sugarcane and banana plants that were planted in the middle of the roads.