Nakuru's Uhuru High School may be flattened to build road

Uhuru High School in Nakuru might be demolished to pave way for the construction of the Njoro – Soilo interchange on the Nakuru – Eldoret highway.

However, Principal Amos Gamba, said the Kenya National Highway Authority (KeNHA) has not informed the school about the impending demolition.

The fate of more than 600 secondary school students as well as their 26 teachers and 1,000 pupils in the primary section now hangs in the balance.

“This is a public school and the authority should have written to the management about the planned changes instead of visiting incognito,” Mr Gamba said.

The school was allocated land from part of the ministry of Agriculture’s 200 acres between 2001/2 to keep away grabbers. Land adjacent to the school has been grabbed and allocated to private developers.

On Saturday a team of KeNHA engineers visited the school situated seven kilometres from Nakuru Town to begin demarcating the proposed site.

However, their bid to enter the compound was thwarted by the school guard.

A senior engineer at the Authority admitted that no official communication had been sent to the school.

“That was an oversight on our part, we shall communicate officially to the school authorities before we embark on the project,” the official, who could not be named as she is not authorised to speak to journalists on behalf of the authority, said.

Mr Gamba said officials from the State corporation were seen counting trees but were sent away by the guard.

“We had started constructing additional Form One classes. The expansion may be halted as we do not know our fate,” Mr Gamba said.