A section of the 11Km multibillion-shillings Dongo-Kundu bypass was vandalized after an accident involving a truck carrying soil near the Port of Mombasa on Wednesday.
Changamwe police boss Peter Omanwa said the driver of the truck was heading to Nairobi before he lost control of the vehicle during the
The truck hit the pillars of a tunnel along the bypass causing part of the roof to tumble down. The lone injured driver was taken to Coast General Hospital.
As a result of the accident, one lane of the road was closed indefinitely. The roof had blocked the lane for vehicles heading to Nairobi.
“We have to wait for cranes to come and removed the rubble,” Omanwa said.
Kenya National Highways Authority said the bypass is Kenya’s most expensive road, which cost Sh2.7 billion per kilometer. The cost of damage could however not be established.
Dogo kundu road in Mombasa is the most expensive road in kenya, 2.7 billion per kilometer. Engineer Kamau might be building an underground Mall with all this loots. pic.twitter.com/nfKPVmTgeR— Obi (@Obi_kenya001) November 22, 2018
Telephone calls and text messages to Coast KeNHA Director Jared Makori went unanswered.
The 11km bypass constructed by China Engineering Construction Company runs from the Second Container Terminal and joins the Mombasa-Nairobi highway at Bonje.
President Uhuru Kenyatta opened the road last year to decongest the town with an aim of easing movement of goods from Mombasa an international port gateway to Kenya and her neighbors
