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KeNHA announces a surprise 8-day nightly closure of Uhuru Highway for emergency repairs, threatening to plunge Nairobi’s night traffic into chaos.

Nairobi motorists face a week of nocturnal paralysis as the highways authority moves to salvage the crumbling spine of the city’s transport network.
The Kenya National Highways Authority (KeNHA) has dropped a bombshell on Nairobi’s commuters, announcing an emergency eight-day closure of a critical section of Uhuru Highway. Beginning tonight, the artery that feeds the heart of the capital will be severed nightly between the University of Nairobi Roundabout and the Westlands Roundabout. This is not a drill; it is a desperate structural intervention aimed at saving a road that has groaned under the weight of neglect and overuse.
The timing is brutal, but the necessity is undeniable. From 10:00 PM to 5:00 AM, the city’s main north-south connector will be a no-go zone, forcing thousands of vehicles into the narrow, potholed alternatives of the Central Business District. While the authority frames this as "maintenance," insiders describe it as a rescue mission for a highway surface that has begun to disintegrate dangerously under the heavy axle load of cross-border trucks and the relentless friction of urban traffic.
The closure is surgical in its timing but blunt in its impact. The 8-day window is a tightrope walk between necessary repairs and economic sabotage.
This closure is symptomatic of a larger crisis in Nairobi’s infrastructure management. The city is playing catch-up, patching wounds on roads that require total reconstruction. The Uhuru Highway, meant to be a high-speed corridor, has effectively become a service lane for the Expressway above it, suffering from drainage issues and surface fatigue. The "emergency" nature of this repair suggests that the degradation accelerated faster than the maintenance schedule allowed.
For the logistics sector, this is a week of lost revenue. For the night reveler and the shift worker, it is a week of misery. KeNHA has deployed marshals and promised swift execution, but in the concrete jungle of Nairobi, promises often evaporate in the exhaust fumes of a three-hour traffic jam.
“We are asking for patience,” the official notice reads. But as the barricades go up tonight, patience will be the first casualty on the dark, deserted tarmac of Uhuru Highway.
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