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Phew! Uhuru Park will not be touched by new expressway

JKIA-Westlands expressway artistic impression. [File, Standard]

The government has bowed to public pressure and reviewed the design of the planned Nairobi expressway that will now leave the iconic Uhuru Park unscathed.

The original design would have seen the Sh62 billion road cut through the famed recreational park and the historic papal dais at the University of Nairobi, triggering a new wave of compensations worth over Sh4.1 billion.

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