{"id":6083,"date":"2026-03-01T20:57:39","date_gmt":"2026-03-01T20:57:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mmu.ac.ke\/photojournalism\/?p=6083"},"modified":"2026-03-02T08:57:39","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T08:57:39","slug":"heavy-rains-disrupt-transport-and-damage-roads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mmu.ac.ke\/photojournalism\/2026\/03\/01\/heavy-rains-disrupt-transport-and-damage-roads\/","title":{"rendered":"HEAVY RAINS DISRUPT TRANSPORT AND DAMAGE ROADS"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Heavy rainfall has left Kenyatta Road waterlogged, muddy, and riddled with potholes, making travel difficult for both motorists and pedestrians. Vehicles were seen struggling through deep puddles while pedestrians try to carefully find a way to walk on the muddy roads. Poor drainage and lack of timely maintenance have worsened the condition of the roads, raising safety concerns and disrupting daily movement in the local community<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Heavy rains leave a road flooded with muddy puddles, in Kenyatta Road making it difficult to pass<\/mark><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Motorists drive around water filled potholes and muddy road in Kenyatta Road<\/mark><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vehicles carefully passing each other on a narrow road avoiding the large pothole in Estate Road Kenyatta Road.<\/mark><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vehicle driven through a flooded road in Kenyatta Road estate. <\/mark><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Pedestrian tries to walk over the muddy road in Avenue Estate in Kenyatta Road<\/mark><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Large pothole filled with rainwater on church road in Kenyatta Road<\/mark><\/em> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A Motorcyclist passes through the muddy road of Immaculate Road in Kenyatta Road.<\/mark><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Cars drives slowly along the muddy road in Kenyatta Road<\/mark><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Photos by Jacinta Mwaniki<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mcs-133 053\/2024<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Heavy rainfall has left Kenyatta Road waterlogged, muddy, and riddled with potholes, making travel difficult for both motorists and pedestrians. Vehicles were seen struggling through deep puddles while pedestrians try to carefully find a way to walk on the muddy roads. Poor drainage and lack of timely maintenance have worsened the condition of the roads, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"ppma_author":[8],"class_list":["post-6083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"authors":[{"term_id":8,"user_id":1,"is_guest":0,"slug":"webmaster","display_name":"Lindaberryll Boyani","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/f1e85b96dae9632e98f1ea8f672cecd57a712905cc4e0128ac65f97b3b635684?s=96&d=mm&r=g","first_name":"Lindaberryll","last_name":"Boyani","user_url":"https:\/\/www.mmu.ac.ke\/photojournalism","job_title":"Journalist","description":""}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mmu.ac.ke\/photojournalism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6083","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mmu.ac.ke\/photojournalism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mmu.ac.ke\/photojournalism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mmu.ac.ke\/photojournalism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mmu.ac.ke\/photojournalism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6083"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.mmu.ac.ke\/photojournalism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6083\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6352,"href":"https:\/\/www.mmu.ac.ke\/photojournalism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6083\/revisions\/6352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mmu.ac.ke\/photojournalism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mmu.ac.ke\/photojournalism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mmu.ac.ke\/photojournalism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6083"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mmu.ac.ke\/photojournalism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=6083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}