Salgaa is a stopover within Nakuru, along the Nakuru-Eldoret highway, that is known for all the wrong reasons.
If it is not killing dozens of Kenyans through freak accidents, then it is hitting the headlines due to high levels of HIV infections and prostitution.
It is a stopover that is loved to the bone by long distance truck drivers and hated by their wives to the core.
A mother of four divorced her beloved husband, a truck driver, for having spent a night in one of the guest houses at the centre.
“They can’t sleep there and fail to fall prey to those girls selling their bodies there. We had agreed he would never spend a night at the notorious place, doing so had repercussions,” the unapologetic woman said.
Salgaa is known for its prostitution.
After girls learned that married drivers spend days without going to see their partners, they decided to set up the business of quenching the drivers' thirst.
When a truck pulls up at the centre as darkness falls, droves of skimpily dressed girls scramble for the driver.
“Many of these girls are sick. They don’t ask you to wear protection,” a driver who has bedded girls at the place told this writer.
Interestingly, Salgaa is a Kalenjin name that means praising ones home.
“The name Salgaa is derived from the Kipsigis words ‘sal’, which means to praise, and ‘gaa’ meaning home,” Alfred Kirui said.
It’s said there is nothing praiseworthy about Salgaa!
A guest house at Salgaa/Sudi
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