Residents of Busia town and truck drivers want the Kenya National Highway Authority (KeNHA) to re-murram the one-kilometer Northern Corridor Highway from the Busia bus stage to Co-operative Bank premises in the border town.
They said KeNHA hurriedly did the murraming of parts of the road using red soil instead of murram, thus endangering the lives of road users during rainy seasons.
A truck driver with Uganda Transport Agencies Abbas Wamala said KeNHA "did a good job" to seal the potholes along the road but could have mixed the murram with lime to avoid vehicles skidding when it rains.
"What the Kenya Government needs to address is the issue of parking for trucks. We need a parking bay before clearance and when the trucks break down," Wamala said.
A newspaper vendor James Omondi told KeNHA to do the job professionally instead of making the Busia town CBD look like a "soil garden and to please the President who will be in Busia on Saturday to open the One Stop Border Post".
Lydia Otieno said one side of the road was good but the other side facing Busia Polytechnic was in a pathetic state.
"When it rains the place becomes muddy with motorcycles and vehicles slashing mud on our wares," she said.
Residents also want KeNHA to expedite the British Government sponsored project of constructing a dual carriage way from the border to Korinda, about 7 kilometers away.
In February 2016 Trade Mark East Africa toured Busia town to assess the scope of work and provide indicative costing for proposed 7 kilometer dual carriageway courtesy of the British Government.
The site visit by a team from Trade Mark East Africa, Department for International Development and KeNHA followed a pledge by former British High Commissioner to Kenya Christian Turner when he paid a courtesy call to Busia Governor Sospeter Ojaamong in October 2015.
Trade Mark East Africa Program Manager Daniel Muturi said Britain offered to assist the Busia County Government to de-congest border crossing to and from Uganda at Busia border point by providing a dual carriage way.
Recently, Busia Governor Sospeter Ojaamong said pressure from residents made the County Government undertake the tarmacking of urban roads instead of the National Government through Kenya Urban Roads Authority.
However, the Governor said his government will continue tarmacking more urban roads across the county so that residents can access urban centers with ease.