To: Eng. Luka Kimeli, Director General, Kenya National Highways Authority (KeNHA)

We, the undersigned—business owners, market traders, and residents of Kangemi, Mountainview, Thiongo Road, and Greater Loresho—stand united in demanding our constitutional right to public participation in the Nairobi-Nakuru Highway project passing through our communities.

This public infrastructure belongs to the people of Kenya. Yet construction, including the Kangemi Overpass, proceeds without meaningful input from those most affected. The Constitution of Kenya 2010 (Article 10) enshrines public participation as a core national value. Ignoring it risks unsafe designs, disrupted livelihoods, and preventable harm to families, children, pedestrians, and informal traders who rely on this corridor daily.

We live, work, and travel here. Top-down decisions threaten our safety, businesses, and environment. Community voices have shaped better outcomes in projects worldwide—preventing accidents, ensuring access, and adding protections. It is unacceptable and unlawful to exclude us now.

We demand:

1. Immediate release of detailed plans, working drawings, and designs for public review.
2. Clear information on U-turns, slip roads, bus/matatu stages, and market relocations or integrations.
3. Binding commitments to regular interchange clean-ups, refuse collection, beautification, and maintenance.
4. Robust safety features: pedestrian crossings, road reserves, footbridges, lighting, signage, and barriers.
5. Full assessment of local access and connectivity impacts—side roads, entry/exit points, matatu stages, and minimal disruption to businesses and residents.
6. Strong pedestrian and non-motorized provisions: safe walkways, overpasses/underpasses, and support for foot traffic and informal traders.
7. Effective environmental and drainage measures: stormwater management, noise/air pollution mitigation, and preservation or creation of green spaces.

Enough is enough. Our children deserve safe crossings. Our traders deserve protection from disruption. Our communities deserve inclusion, not imposition.

By signing this petition in large numbers, we show KeNHA and the government that the people will not be silenced. Together, we can force transparency, accountability, and real change—ensuring this highway serves us, not displaces or endangers us.

Sign now. Share widely. Our voices matter. Let’s make them listen.

Thank you for standing with us.