Kiambu Residents Call On President Ruto To Order Rehabilitation Of The Poor State Of The Road
Poor State Of The Road
By Felix Njenga
Residents of Riabai ward in Kiambu subcounty have called on President William Ruto who is on a development tour in Mt. Kenya region to order immediate rehabilitation of the deplorable state of Riabai to Ndumberi road which has caused mobility suffering.
According to James Kiarie, a resident said that the road has been a political tool for politicians for years that it will be constructed a promise that has never come to be fulfilled.
“This road serves as residents who are farmers to connect to major towns like kiambu and Githunguri and it is in deplorable state. We have made pleas over the years and politicians only come to make promises and never fulfil,” he said.
The 10 kilometer road is supposed to be rehabilitated by the Kenya Rural Roads Authority and was recently dug to allow it to be upgraded to bitumen standards but the ongoing rains have stalled the works to commence.
Jane Wanjiru, a residents expressed her concerns that along the road there is schools, church, a sisters convent and many rental and residential houses where their mobility is inconvenient especially during the rainy season.
” School children are unable to walk through the road as they go to school, school buses personal vehicles maneuver dangerously across the road while others get stuck. A food for education truck got stuck as it was delivering food to the schools and it took hours to push it through,” she said.
She added that the residents do not want politics to be played on the road and all they want is for the road to be rehabilitated for better mobility and access and not necessarily to be tarmarked.
Steve Kamau, a boda boda rider said that businesses has been affected as residents would not prefer to be ferried by a motorcycle since they are afraid to fall especially when it has rained.
“Our customers have reduced as no one wants to fall as the motorbike try to swerve through the roads. Many have fallen as the road is bad. When rain comes we just park our boda boda’s and we do not earn,” he said.
Julia Wanjiru said that the elderly and the sick are hard hit as they have to be carried shoulder high as vehicles cannot access their homes to take them to hospital or their preferred destinations.
” I am an elderly woman and my young ones have to carry me to go to my destination due to poor road. The terrain is bad” she said.
The residents called on the President to come to their aid and priorities the road as a matter of urgency.
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