Grisly road accident that claimed at least sixteen lives on Jamhuri day at Sachangwan. (Photo/The star.co.ke)Infrastructure principal secretary Eng. John Mosonik says the government will early next year tender for the construction of a dual carriageway between Njoro and Mau Summit as a long-term measure to curb road carnage along the road.
The government is however set to erect speed bumps on the 16-kilometer stretch between Salgaa and Mau Summit as a short-term measure.
This comes after a grisly road accident that claimed at least sixteen lives on Jamhuri day at Sachangwan area along Nakuru-Eldoret highway
Over 60 fatalities were recorded in a four day period on Kenyan roads and have been marked as one of the two deadly black spots on the busy highway.
Officials from the transport ministry were at the notorious scene on Wednesday including Infrastructure Principal Secretary Eng. John Musonik who said that the government will spend 500 million shillings to erect bumps on the killer stretch even as he blamed human error the 13 vehicle pileup.
Musonik adding that the government will construct a dual carriage along the accident-prone section next year as a long-term remedy.
The announcement came even as both transport ministry and the NTSA came and sharp criticism over laxity to bring sanity on Kenyan roads at the expense of innocent Kenyans.