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Highway town of Salgaa strives to redeem its image

Angry residents demonstrate on the busy Nakuru-Eldoret highway at Salgaa town, Nakuru County, last month. [PHOTO: KIPSANG JOSEPH/STANDARD

Salgaa is perhaps the busiest stop over for long distance truck drivers plying the Kenya-Uganda highway.

This dusty, and sometimes muddy, highway centre located some 27 kilometres west of Nakuru town has over the years made headlines for all the wrong reasons. Whether it is the illegal sex trade, oil siphoning, freaky road accidents or scores of youth stealing from accident victims, Salgaa has seen it all.

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