Residents of Kiti estate in Nakuru have called on the county government to construct proper drainage system on feeder roads in the area ahead of the onset of rains to avert destruction by floods.
Traders in the area fear floods will destroy their businesses if no action is taken.
Milkah Nyawira, a trader, noted that in the past few years they have been forced to relocate due to rain water sweeping away their premise.
Currently with all the culverts at the Kiti-High View road blocked, Nyawira urged the county to move with speed and unblock all the culverts.
Another resident Dianah Nyambura said that if no action is taken, the residents will be unable to go about their duties adding that rain water renders the road impassable.
According to her, the area has been most affected by rain water flowing from the Menengai hills which flows with sand that ends up in Kiti blocking the drainage system.
Former Bahati councillor Sammy Ndichu called on the national and county government to intervene.
“The national and county government has to intervene before the onset of rains in late February,” Ndichu said.
This comes even as the county continues with the second phase of rehabilitating dilapidated feeder roads in all 55 wards within Nakuru which commenced on September 2018.
Access to sanitation, drainage and sewerage services to people living in the outskirts of the Towns CBD remain a major challenge with poorly coordinated solid waste disposal mechanisms.
Every time it rains, raw sewage pipes burst and their content will leak and flow in the estates.
The situation is worse in estates where low income earners live such as Rhonda, Ponda Mali and Kaptembwo.
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