PHOTOS: Buildings set for demolition to pave way for the Mutindwa

A 3 storey house set to be demolished to pave way for the Mutindwa – Kifaru road

The Kenya Urban Roads Authority last month issued a vacate notice on the buildings in Umoja Estate that have encroached the Mutindwa – Kifaru road.

Dirty, stinking and crime infested garbage sorting area in the middle of Umoja Estate. This should be close asap as it endangers the lives of residents. @report_taka pic.twitter.com/aFFAi4XBev

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“The plots you mentioned above are in the middle of the Mutindwa-Kifaru route, which is one of the project roads. You are expected to have surrendered the encroached portions of the Mutindwa-Kifaru Road road reserve as at the close of business on the thirty-first day from the date of this notice”, KURA wrote.

This is essentially where the renovations, expansion of the road will occur. This is near the Matatu stage

Umoja News has counted the buildings set to be brought down along this road, they include 6 major buildings, over 30 shops, 5 wines and spirits outlets, 2 churches. The demolitions might also touch the walls of SDA church, KAG Church.

Buildings set to be demolished to pave way for Sh1 billion Umoja Estate roads

Mutindwa – Kifaru road runs from the junction with Outering Road to Umoja 2 through Innercore. For perspective, this is the road that passes in front of Umoja 1 Seventh Day Adventist (SDA) Church that the are MP George Theuri had started tarmacking.

Untarmacked part of the Mutindwa – Kifaru road in front of the SDA Church

The renovation of this road is part of the Sh902 million project to revamp 8 kilometres of link roads in and around Umoja Estate.

READ: PHOTOS: Buildings on road reserves in Umoja Estate – Part 2

The 8 km, roads in Umoja Innercore include Ruaraka Crescent Road, Kangundo Moi Drive link, Malewa – Mwangaza Road, Nasra Estate Road, Kifaru Mutindwa Road, Kangundo Service Road, Mowlem Link Road, and Outer Ring Road.

The blue-roofed building is the KAG church whose live fence will have to be pushed inside

Plans included in the project involve upgrading the roads to bitumen standards, a 7-meter wide two-lane carriageway, inclusion of a 2-meter footpath, bus bays, drainage facilities, road marking, and street lighting. The authority detailed that the road project is expected to be complete by November 2022.

Govt plans to use Sh1 billion to revamp roads within Umoja Estate

Embakasi West in general is a smaller area and can all be tarmacked, waste collected well, and drainages repaired to look like the best part of Nairobi Central Business District (CBD, however, lazy leadership and wananchi have continued to support mediocrity and hence live in dirt.

Where the road ends. This will be the juntion between Mutindwa- Kifaru road and Moi Drive. The building on the right will be demolished. It has been in existence longer than those on the left. However, owing to the new godfathers that pull the strings at City Hall the newer ones that have encroached the road will be spared.

Along the Mutindwa- Kifaru road, under the IBER Africa powerlines, there lies a garbage sorting area that has attracted street families, increased dirty and bad smell.

This should be done away with.