Uhuru to Open Nairobi-Naivasha SGR Line Wednesday
President Kenyatta is scheduled to officially open the Nairobi-Naivasha standard gauge railway (SGR) line on Wednesday.
The launch will pave the way for passenger and cargo services on the 120-kilometer railway line that has been under construction in the last three years.
The SGR line links Mombasa through Nairobi to the resort town of Naivasha, where a dry port is under construction to ease the movement of goods.
"The SGR extension to Naivasha is now complete and on Wednesday the Head of State will officially launch it by opening all the stations along the route," Naivasha sub-County Commissioner Mbogo Mathioya said.
"The president will also use the occasion to launch the Internal Container Depot which will be located around the 1,000 acres gazetted for the industrial park.”
The railway line whose construction was launched in October 2016 has four termini at Ongata Rongai, Ngong, Mai Mahui, and Suswa.
The construction was done by the China Communications Construction Company (CCCC) at a cost of Sh150 billion. The contractor has been running trial tests in the past four weeks in readiness to commission the project.
Some key features of the line include the longest railway tunnel in Africa at 4.5 kilometers and a 6-kilometer super-bridge running over the Nairobi national park. The line snakes through Nairobi, Kajiado, Kiambu, Nakuru and Narok Counties.
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Why is it stopping in…
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Why is it stopping in Naivasha? There is Nakutu, Eldoret, Kisumu, Busia.....
Because the Uhuru Kenyatta…
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Because the Uhuru Kenyatta is an idiot.
Bravo bravo bravo to uhuru…
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Bravo bravo bravo to uhuru kenyatta for this massive sgr.Yes it is full of contravacies but at the end kenyans will benefit in the future.I remember when kibaki started thika superhighway many critics spoke shit the same way they r doing with sgr but today many remembers n thank kibaki for building the superhighway.Mr uhuru let the railway go to kisumu then uganda to rwanda to congo?
Loss making SGR. Kikuyus …
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Loss making SGR.
Kikuyus economically sabotaging Coast region just because they can.
There is medicine for impunity, it’s called terrorism.
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"President Kenyatta is scheduled to officially open the Nairobi-Naivasha standard gauge railway (SGR) line on Wednesday". This statement is misleading. The SGR does not pass through Naivasha town as stated. It passes through Mai Mahiu and Suswa route on the way to Narok town and this are different towns from Naivasha town. Those who knows the area knows what I am talking about. I question the wisdom of constructing a rail line to Kisumu via Narok route instead of Nakuru route. It does not make sense unless it was done for political rather than economical reasons. Suswa town itself has a population of less than 500 people while Mai Mahiu, Suswa and Narok towns have a combined population of less than 30,000 people. A logical reason that would make sense is to build the line through Naivasha-Nakuru towns which have a combined population of over 1,000,000 people. In Kenya politics is the driving force behind every economic activity. The question we need to ask ourselves is who owns the land this depots are going to be build. If we know the answer to that then we would have an answer to the whole thing
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