Hundreds of people travelling to and from Machakos town were
stranded for hours following major traffic jam that hit the town on Saturday.
The jam was caused by huge numbers of people travelling from Nairobi and other towns for the second edition of the Masaku
7s rugby tournament.
The Traffic jam was so bad it held the town still for more than twelve hours from Saturday evening as hundreds of vehicles flocked in with the busiest road being the Machakos/Kyumbi road that leads to Nairobi.
A Kenya Breweries promotion event at The Machakos Sports club, the burial of the country’s former top military chief the late Gen (rtd) Jackson Mulinge and the ASK Lower
Eastern show heavily contributed to the jam.
Traffic police in the town battled to
contain for hours in vain.
It took motorists to cover a one kilometre stretch from the show grounds to the town slightly over one hour to get to the town, a distance normally covered in less than 5 minutes.
The town was awash with posh cars commandeered by youthful men and women whose high class living standards one could not help noticing.
When things got tough, the youths pulled their vehicles off the road, flashed their doors wide open and played big time music as they danced their hearts out.
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Teenage girls dressed in miniskirts and bikers were seen dancing as they shared bottles of hot drinks as they cursed the jam.
Still, some who could not get anywhere to lay their heads were forced to remain in bars, vehicles or in the streets where they sang and danced tuning the entire town to a celebration mode for the nights of Friday and Saturday.
Bars, hotels and related businesses reported booming operations that have never been
recorded in the town’s over a century history.
Traders told The Standard that they recorded more than ten times their normal income per day since Friday.
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