Mbulu claimed that their member of parliament has previously distanced himself from the road saying it is not his obligation.<\/p>\n

The area was made a sub-county recently after being carved out of Matuga sub county.<\/p>\n

Kubo and Mkongani divisions merged up to form a sub-county with over 80,000 people.<\/p>\n

Boaz Mwakasimu another resident said that tarmacking of the road will open a lot of development in Shimba Hills sub-county.<\/p>\n

The residents said that their only hope is president William Ruto to ensure the road is given a priority which will be the first one in Shimba Hills.<\/p>\n

This year’s Mashujaa celebrations will be held in Kwale county with the President expected to lead Kenyans in celebrating the national event.<\/p>\n

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By Agnetta Okwemba Poor road network in Shimba Hills sub-county has caused huge losses to residents who depend on selling farm produce to Kongowea and Diani. The locals have raised concerns over the failure by the national highway authority since independence to start the tarmacking of Mwabungo-Shimba Hills-TM road which is very critical for transportation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9390,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[83,76],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-9383","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-kwale-example-1","8":"category-top-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coasttimesdigital.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coasttimesdigital.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coasttimesdigital.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coasttimesdigital.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coasttimesdigital.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9383"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/coasttimesdigital.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9383\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9392,"href":"https:\/\/coasttimesdigital.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9383\/revisions\/9392"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coasttimesdigital.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coasttimesdigital.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coasttimesdigital.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coasttimesdigital.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}