Thousands of city residents were on Thursday morning left stranded after heavy rainfall left many areas flooded.
The heavy downpour, which started at around 6.30am brought business to standstill in the Kenyan capital, causing heavy traffic along most roads leading to the city.
Most affected areas included; Moi Avenue, Tom Mboya street, Racecourse Road, Ronald Ngala Street, Haile Selassie Avenue, Temple Road, Kimathi Street among others.
Mombasa Road, Uhuru Highway, Jogoo road and Limuru Road were also adversely affected.
Motorists plying Uhuru Highway, Waiyaki Way, Thika Road, Jogoo Road, Mombasa Road and other networks experienced difficulties navigating through the flood waters.
The floods also cut off roads and bridges outside the city, rendering the roads impassable.
Some commuters were forced to remove their shoes as others parted with cash to get ‘lifts’ from porters, boda bodas and pull carts. Others remained stranded in the streets after finding passages to their workplaces flooded.
Last week, the Kenya Meteorological Department issued an alert warning of heavy rains and flooding in various parts of the country, including; Nairobi, Western, Nyanza, Rift Valley, Northern, Southeastern, Coast and Central.
A similar situation was witnessed last week after heavy rains.
Insufficient engineering!…
Insufficient engineering! You construct cosmetically appealing roads and buildings and forget to factor wear and tear due to natural causes. Work on the drainage systems!
These corruption problems…
These corruption problems will only be solved by the FIRING SQUAD.Ati wanjinga ata hawana aimbu wakimuchagua muusaji madawa ya kulevya,Sonko to replace another thug,Kindero.Others even voted for another gangster called Kenneth.Hawa wote ni wa kupunfuza RISASI.Utasikia Sonko blaming Kindero but he never carried the city drainage system.Sonko ata hajui kama iko kitu kama hiyo.
Where is Sonko and his “…
Where is Sonko and his ” rescue” money making squad, can you work on the drainage system in NBO much of which is blocked by garbage. And please the city has outgrown the colonial times drainage system, come up with a 2018 solution . nkt!
Where is Mkenya Halisi to…
Where is Mkenya Halisi to give yet another excuse? Sonko if you are reading this all are saying DRAINAGE system. This is common sense. Lakini why do we Kenyans throw garbage in these systems. Short sightedness and lack of common sense is grossly lacking in our population.Lack of uugwana.
Mwakilishi, I had a positive…
Mwakilishi, I had a positive comment….why didn’t you post it? Or negative has to go with negative?