PHOTOS: Buildings on road reserves in Umoja Estate - Part 2

When you see the picture of Barcelona, Spain, you are amazed. It is a crisscrossing intersection of roads, once cutting into another in geometrical perfection. The buildings are arranged in such perfection too. No blocked pathways. Spaces t break the concrete jungle are also catered for.

Umoja Estate too, in the 1970s and 1980s was supposed to have exit and entry roads cutting through the state with clarity.

A section of Barcelona City in Spain. See the neat arrangement of houses and the road crisscrossing the area.

However, in the 90s and 2000s to today, buildings come up everywhere everyday, most of them sit on roads that would make it easy for personal cars to enter and exit the estate, or better still Passenger Service Vehicles (PSVs) and fire engines to serve the estate better.

In Umoja Estate, all the marked playgrounds and small ‘parks’ have been taken up.

In the continuing series, the second part of the Consider demolishing these buildings in Umoja Estate standing on road reserve, we showcase building that sit on exit and entry roads in Umoja 1 – A area.

Imagine a well planned Umoja where vehicles, both PSV and private move freely; garbage trucks can access every inch of the estate and even fire trucks can access and put out fires.
Umoja News editor

One

The road that cuts between Umoja Health Centre, the Assumption of Mary Catholic Church has an abrupt ending. There’s an imposing old building at the end that is blocking the exit and entry into this are.

Behind: The building that is pointed by the middle downward arrow is the culprit. Though some might argue that there’s a road as shown by the arrow pointing leftwards in the picture. Those exits too are either blocked or constricted as will be shown in the subsequent pictures.

Front side: The front facing side of the building above. See the beautiful road (with parked hand carts) that the blocked road would have joined. The road (with parked hand carts) runs into and out of Moi Drive on both ends.

Two

In the leftwards exit (the first) that people can claim the Umoja health centre – Assumption of Mary catholic church can have we have these. Two imposing buildings.

Front side: This is the second such exit for the area, but as you can see, the road is constricted to the point of fitting only people, no cars can pass, see the third such exit. Back side picture below.

The third such exit is at the far with an arrow pointing down. That building blocks the exit to Moi Drive on the Peacock area. The arrows pointing rightward shows the other blocked (below arrow pointing righwards) and constricted pathway. There a fourth one, also constricted, its front part is shown below.

This is the constricted fourth exit. Poor planning on steroids.

This is that imposing building that blocks the road that should’ve exited to Peacock area of Umoja Estate

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Two

Just after you leave the main gate to Umoja 1 Primary, there’s a left turn that enters into the road shown below; the road ends abruptly because a building stands on it way. The building it adjacent to the building that houses the famous HornBill Pub, Kenchic and other businesses.

The building in Umoja 1 near Hornbill Pub. Se the constricted exit and entry.

This is the frontside of the Building from Moi Drive. Do you see KenChic?

Three

This is now in innercore, the green building made of iron sheets is a church that has potentially blocked the road that would lead into the one that comes from the Umoja Mutua Butchery and runs up to Moi Drive Umoja 2 Market.