What leaders can learn from Raila’s boldness in opening up city bypasses

The 17.3-kilometre Nairobi Western bypass.

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Nairobi’s Eastern, Northern and Southern bypasses, as well as their link roads, have a unique, but also annoying, history. It ended well, though, bespeaking the late Raila Odinga’s boldness in driving public good.

The bypasses, which provided much-needed relief to local and transnational traffic that did not enter the city centre, had been projected and planned for in the 1970s.

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