Kura engineers walked a 13-kilometer stretch of Outering Road with Eastlands residents after locals petitioned about busted streetlights and trashed guardrails, making the highway sketchy. Justus Onyinkwa from Kura admitted that vandals keep ripping out underground power cables faster than crews can fix them, and the agency wants to switch everything to solar panels to stop the cable theft. The road cost 11 billion shillings when it opened back in 2015, but people say it hasn't lived up to the hype.
City Capital handles maintenance under contract, and they blame accidents for wrecking the guardrails while saying lighting isn't their problem. Residents gave Kura three weeks to sort things out, or they'd take it higher up the chain. The agency says it's teaming up with police and transport regulators to crack down on matatus stopping wherever they want and traders setting up shop where pedestrians need to walk.
City Capital handles maintenance under contract, and they blame accidents for wrecking the guardrails while saying lighting isn't their problem. Residents gave Kura three weeks to sort things out, or they'd take it higher up the chain. The agency says it's teaming up with police and transport regulators to crack down on matatus stopping wherever they want and traders setting up shop where pedestrians need to walk.
