Without Falklands War, there would have been no killer Nithi Bridge

Sunday's bus crash into Nithi River killed 33 people with 10 seriously injured. [Phares Mutembei, Standard]

Few Kenyans will now recall the 10-day Falklands War between Argentina and the United Kingdom in 1982 over two British-dependent territories in the South Atlantic.
The two nations clashed in an undeclared war that ended with the humiliation of Argentina which had laid claim to the Falkland Islands and its dependent territories South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands.
So what does that have to do with the killer Nithi River bridge?

Well, everything according to a deceased Briton who was involved in the construction of the Thuci-Nkubu road in the early 1980s.
Ernest William Twell who was one of the top engineers for Kier International which built the Thuci-Nkubu section of the Embu-Meru highway financed by a British grant recalled in an interview how the sudden war between the two countries had thrust the project into uncharted territory.
Since the project had been a grant, Britain was influencing everything from tendering to how much was being pumped into the project.
One day according to Twell, all senior officials in grant projects were called and shown a letter requiring them to downscale budgets due to the impending war.
Thuci-Nkubu road project which Queen Elizabeth II had bequeathed to residents of a hinterland which produced her "favourite coffee and tea," had to be cut back by several kilometres.