Netizens are at loggerheads with the Kenya National Highways Authority (KENHA).
Kenyans on social media have blamed engineers hired by the agency over a sudden influx of accidents along a busy road in Arabuko Sokoke area.
The contractor in charge of conducting repairs on the route has been accused of blatant negligence in failing to mount roadside warnings to warn drivers of ongoing works.
This has resulted in multiple disastrous scenes in the past week.
In one post seen by CNYAKUNDI.COM, a netizen reported how an unsuspecting Subaru driver skidded and rolled his vehicle times on Saturday, November 6, 2021, as he struggled to navigate through the section full of tar and loose chippings.
“This is a Subaru that has rolled at Arabuko area because someone poured tar and chips and left them like that. He was ahead of me” he wrote on Twitter.
A different road user who used the same route on Saturday also lamented how the unmarked works cost him his vehicle’s windscreen.
“They should have given detour signs,” he wrote.
Just under him, another Kenyan expanded the conversation into KENHA’s seemingly widespread cases of negligence.
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The city dweller revealed that engineers hired by the agency are yet to erect a sign along the Westlands-Redhill Link Road to warn drivers of the newly constructed bumps.
“How much more would it have cost you to put a warning sign?” he asked.
Although the process of surface-dressing during road repair involves spraying the binder, spreading chippings and rolling them, contractors are required to erect clear and visible signage along the section.
Victims have been advised to institute legal action against KENHA and demand compensation.
In 2020, a court ordered KENHA contractors to pay Nairobi lawyer Ahmednasir Abdullahi a whooping Sh750,000 for damages caused to his car.
In a ruling, the Chief Magistrate acknowledged that the windscreen of Ahmednasir’s car, a Bentley Bentayga, “was damaged by the stones, shrapnel and particles emanating from the work that was being negligently undertaken by the Defendants agents, causing him great loss”.
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