Utawala grows without essential services

By Ferdinand Mwongela

A plane roars overhead as a bus leaves pedestrians choking in a cloud of dust as it bobs and weaves slowly into Utawala Estate. Until about five years ago, the estate was just another sleepy village crawling in a vast expanse of brown grass punctuated by stunted shrubs and Euphorbia trees with sparse houses and Maasai cattle dotting the plains.