Movement along the Nakuru-Eldoret highway was disrupted on Wednesday (September 3) after a fissure developed near Eveready roundabout.

This is the same spot another fissure had formed barely a year ago.

According to Boniface Mwaura, a boda boda operator near the Eveready Roundabout it was aloud thud followed by a vehicle screeching that announced the huge gulley.

“I rushed there thinking there was an accident but I found a huge hole. I quickly took tree branches and set them on the road to warn oncoming traffic of the impending danger. Soon after, more road users showed up with a tape and they cordoned off the area,” he says.

A lorry offloads stones used to fill up the fissure that had formed outside Eveready roundabout, Photo taken on September 4,2025.

Photo credit: BRET SANYA/MTAA WANGU

Mwaura says the incident happened at around 5 pm leading to heavy traffic that went well into the night after KenHA officially closed off that section of the road.

“They closed off the two lanes that lead into Nakuru city forcing the motorists to share the lanes on the outgoing traffic heading to Soilo,” he adds.

The boda rider says, “Some buses and trailers actually had to stand by the road and wait till very late so that they could pass since the road was already congested and they could not navigate their way,”

We spoke to Allan Bosire, a driver who plies the Ngata- Sobea route who was passing through the roundabout at around 6pm.

“The traffic was terrible. Traffic caught up with us near the Menengai Company and it did not move for the most part. After some twenty minutes we made headway and went past the roundabout. Since that stretch of road was congested with oncoming traffic on our lane, we had to go off road up until the section near Upperhill estate,” he states.

There are those who opted to use the route that heads to the Industrial area from the roundabout to make their way to London, Olive Inn, and use the inroads of Zaburi and Baraka estates to find their way to the main highway.

A caterpillar stands by after filling up a fissure that had formed near Eveready roundabout along the Nakuru-Eldoret highway. Photo taken on September 4,2025.

Photo credit: BRET SANYA/MTAA WANGU

Eng. Kibet Terigin, the Corridor B Director at the Kenya National Highways Authority (KeNHA) confirmed that after assessment, the road is safe for use by the motorists.

The authority is also working to fill up the fissures.

Kenha sends a team of geologist to investigate the appearance of fissures along the Nakuru-Eldoret highway

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