A section of Nakuru residents are complaining over unequal distribution of street lighting services, and want an intervention from local leaders.
Led by Makao Estate Elders Council Chairperson Lawrence Muchina, the residents are up in arms against the Nakuru County Government’s Ministry of Housing and Physical Planning officers, for allegedly exercising discrimination in the allocation of street lights.
Muchina, who was speaking to our reporter at Makao business centre accompanied by a section of the area members, complained that the area, which lies on the boarder of Nakuru-East and Bahati constituencies, was getting a raw deal in public service resources allocation since it is assumed that the area ought to receive such services from Bahati Sub-county.
“We want our Member of Parliament Kimani Ngujiri and Member of the County Assembly Samuel Kamau to address this injustice. We live near Nakuru town but we are denied public services enjoyed by our immediate neigbours. We wonder how many county governments are there in Nakuru, and whether Bahati is not within Nakuru County,” complained Muchina.
According to the elder, the residential area has not been supplied with a single street light since the project kicked off some time last year, thus making it vulnerable to crime.
He observed that criminals who avoid lighted areas at night resort to operating from the area, thus increasing insecurity.
Early this year, the area residents arrested and lynched a middle aged man, who among a gang of other criminals had invaded a poultry farm at a local homestead.