Mr. President, the traffic snarl-up in Ongata Rongai is eroding social economic growth

The traffic snarl-up has become a painful feature to commuters and residents of Ongata Rongai and its environs. Uhuru Muigai Kenyatta and his counterpart William Samoie Ruto have invested heavily in Rongai and its environs and yet, they have been unable to intervene in assisting the disappointed residents by putting pressure on Kenya National Highways Authority (KeNHA) that has disowned any near plans to expand the jam-infested road. This in turn has continued to erode the social economic gains in Ongata Rongai and its environs.

Indeed, the traffic snarl up in Ongata Rongai and its environs is slowly eroding the social economic development of this upcoming and promising suburb. Ongata Rongai is rapidly becoming inhabitable. The snarl-up along Magadi road from Bomas of Kenya to Ongata Rongai town has become a painful feature to commuters and residents. This road is a trans-county road and it’s under Kenya National Highways Authority (KeNHA). The painful bitter part of this story is that KeNHA has disowned any plans to expand this 10 kilometre road to dual carriage leaving residents hopeless and disappointed. Magadi Road that connects the Bomas interchange with Rongai is a single carriageway and because of the town’s high population, as it stands the road cannot deal with the high volume of traffic.