{"id":114389,"date":"2025-04-30T10:03:49","date_gmt":"2025-04-30T10:03:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/index.php\/2025\/04\/30\/nakuru-kabarak-road-closed-after-a-sinkhole-appears-following-heavy-rains\/"},"modified":"2025-04-30T10:03:49","modified_gmt":"2025-04-30T10:03:49","slug":"nakuru-kabarak-road-closed-after-a-sinkhole-appears-following-heavy-rains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/nakuru-kabarak-road-closed-after-a-sinkhole-appears-following-heavy-rains\/","title":{"rendered":"Nakuru-Kabarak road closed after a sinkhole appears following heavy rains"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>NAKURU, Kenya, Apr 30 \u2013 A section of Nakuru-Kabarak road has been closed after a big sinkhole appeared following heavy rains on Tuesday evening.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The sinkhole is on the road side at National Filling in London area of Nakuru Town West Sub-County.<\/p>\n<p>Nakuru County Commissioner, Loyford Kibaara said they were compelled to close the road for fear that the adjacent section might also sink.<\/p>\n<p>He explained that Nakuru sits on a mass of volcanic whose bedrock suffered major cavities, faults at fissures.<\/p>\n<p>He said this was a common occurrence due to the geographical nature of the city especially Nakuru Town West which does not have a well developed drainage system.<\/p>\n<p>He added that a similar incident has been reported on a farmland in Gilgil area.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cExpert from the Kenya National Highways Authority (KeNHA) and geologists have vitited the scene with the intention of getting a long lasting solution,\u201d said Kibaara.<\/p>\n<p>He also cited Maai Mahiu where the main road from Narok has been cut off during heavy rains.<\/p>\n<p>London Ward MCA, Bernard Gatusso said the experts, especially should create awareness among the locals on the the natural weaknesses of the area.<\/p>\n<p>He said this was not the first incident as many similar incidents have been recorded with the recent ones being last year in Eveready area.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NAKURU, Kenya, Apr 30 \u2013 A section of Nakuru-Kabarak road has been closed after a big sinkhole appeared following heavy rains on Tuesday evening. The sinkhole is on the road side at National Filling in London area of Nakuru Town West Sub-County. Nakuru County Commissioner, Loyford Kibaara said they were compelled to close the road [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-114389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114389"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114389\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}