Among the superstitious beliefs they held was that the spirits of the 200 Sachang’wan 2009 fire tragedy victims buried in a mass grave nearby were hovering around, baying for blood. The elders even dug into their history and came up with a claim that the spirits of three cursed Nandi chiefs who died near Sachang’wan were causing the accidents on the Kibunja- Salgaa stretch. He said the splitting of the road, erection of bumps and marking of the road stretches had eliminated mass deaths. ROAD WORKMr Murage added that the procurement process was ongoing for the planned construction of the Rironi-Mau Summit stretch. “We were first concentrating on the critical sections of the road, with the aim of urgently reducing the road crashes,” Engineer Murage said.

Source: Daily Nation March 24, 2019 08:26 UTC