Gilgil town is a small dusty centre off the Nakuru-Nairobi highway.
Represented by dashing MP Martha Wangari, the town has nothing to write home about.
Many residents here are farmers and pastoralists.
Those who do not love intensive jobs are the ones who moved closer to the road and set up Gilgil town.
The area has since become an instant attraction to investors due to the barracks in the area.
Soldiers use their cash to buy pieces of land, finance sponsor lifestyles, take booze among other pleasurable things.
According to a resident, local girls have shunned local men who they consider as broke.
"These soldiers have money, especially those who come after an assignment, we dance on their cash," a girl told this writer.
As you go around the area, you will find many construction projects that were left mid-way.
"You see that house which is still to be finished? It has been like that for the last 15 years, I hear it belonged to a soldier who had been paid a lot of money after returning from Afghanistan, girls came his way as he was building it. They ate all the money," Esther Nyawira, a vegetable vendor, told this writer.
And true to the residents' word, I met several soldiers in pubs enjoying their favourite shots.
"We come here to relax, we are allowed after doing our duties," one said.
Gilgil is the Kikuyu corruption of the Maa word il-girgir.
Il- girgir means acacia. The place was named so due to the many acacia trees which were in the rea.
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