Construction of the Thika Super Highway.[Photo/NPR]The Kenya Urban Roads Authority (Kura) has cautioned Thika residents against building houses on road reserves
Kura has warned that demolitions will conducted soon to recover the land.
The move will pave way for the construction of two by-passes.
Speaking during a stakeholders forum at Kiang’ombe Estate in Thika, Kura officials said the houses built on road reserves would be brought down if the owners fail to clear them.
Josiah Mwangi from Kura said they would give a notice to owners of structures on public land.
“Those who have built on road corridors will have to remove them at their own cost. There will be no compensation. We will soon issue formal notices to them after the survey works are done. It will be painful but necessary,” said Mwangi.
During the meeting, it emerged that houses had allegedly been built on a road reserve from British American Tobacco to Corner One in Kiganjo where one of the by-passes is meant to pass.