An MP has kicked off plans to rename the Thika Superhighway after a former powerful politician.
Kiharu MP Ndindi Nyoro on Thursday said naming the road after multiparty politics icon Kenneth Matiba will be one way of honouring the late politician who recently died after a long battle with stroke.
"We have to honour our heroes," Nyoro said said during a requiem mass for the late Matiba in Muranga.
"The Thika Superhighway should be renamed after Matiba. He played an instrumental role in the democratization process in our country. His , is a name we cannot ignore."
Matiba who will be cremated at the Langata Cemetery, according to his will, leaves a legacy especially having taken part in the re-introduction of malty party politics during former President Daniel Moi's regime when the only party that existed was the Kenya African National Union (KANU).
He served as Transport Minister during Moi's regime but resigned at the docket in 1988 at the height for calls of the re-introduction of malty party politics.
This quest led to his arrest and detention without trial in 1990. He was detained at the Kamiti Maximum Prison alongside opposition chief Raila Odinga who, as a young politician then, had joined the league of agitators of the scrapping off of one party politics.