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Ongata Rongai - Requires Help
am6612
#1 Posted : Thursday, September 15, 2011 2:11:56 PM
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Any residents of Rongai out there who have ideas on how the place can be made better for all as:
1.Rongai is a fast growing urban centre in Kenya without a municipal authority
2.no political will from the local area MP and councillors
3.neglected and forgotten by central government

Below are the issues that need to be resolved and this will see quality life for the residents as well as more value for property:
1.lack of infrastructure, lighting and social amenities. Only one road that has tarmac(magadi road). Internal roads very narrow and are of earth.
Traffic jams in Rongai are quite sickening and one spends 30min for a distance of only 3Km between Multimedia and Tuskys.
2.Mounds of garbage are becoming quite common
3.Uncontrolled and unplanned informal business
4.Insufficient waste water management

It is only the residents who will help themselves.
Gathige
#2 Posted : Thursday, September 15, 2011 3:01:45 PM
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@am6612.

The only way out for Rongai is annexed as part of the metropolitan. As you are aware, currently it is under Olkejuado County Council which has vehemently opposed any of its regions being part of the metropolitan. As it is one, the Council collects rates and spends mostly on the pastoral related issues and not urban management.

My 2 cents
"Things that matter most must never be at the mercy of things that matter least." Goethe
Peppy
#3 Posted : Thursday, September 15, 2011 3:37:51 PM
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@am6612

A few years back there was a thread about bringing people in o'rongai together to form a community welfare group. You may want to search for this in the archives and take it forward.
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Cde Monomotapa
#4 Posted : Thursday, September 15, 2011 3:47:15 PM
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Gathige wrote:
@am6612.

The only way out for Rongai is annexed as part of the metropolitan. As you are aware, currently it is under Olkejuado County Council which has vehemently opposed any of its regions being part of the metropolitan. As it is one, the Council collects rates and spends mostly on the pastoral related issues and not urban management.

My 2 cents

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tony stark
#5 Posted : Thursday, September 15, 2011 4:30:16 PM
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I am so sorry for all the O rongai fellas who have to deal with crazy traffic every day etc etc (I hope that sounded sincere)

But why did you move there. And once you are there you start demanding for changes "ooohhh serikali, ooohhh serikali, ooohhh!". Olkejuado County Council has to be concerned about pastoral issues if they don't who will?

If you wanted to stay in runda you should just have moved to Runda as opposed to moving to O Rongai and start complaining that this place is not like runda.
sihingwa
#6 Posted : Thursday, September 15, 2011 4:40:15 PM
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Hiyo Kali Tony! But the demand is for the most basic of needs...good roads and no garbage...simple. We in Rongai are not interested in the Runda 'greenery'
Gathige
#7 Posted : Thursday, September 15, 2011 4:45:12 PM
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@ tony stark,

We moved there to Jipanga as we plan on the move to Runda. But the place surely is just one big village and the Council has no idea on what to do with it. Investors have come in but they are as clueless as the Council. How else do you explain a fast growing town with now water and sewerage system and a thriving market on the roadside? Tunaomba serikali iingilie kati!
"Things that matter most must never be at the mercy of things that matter least." Goethe
maka
#8 Posted : Thursday, September 15, 2011 5:27:15 PM
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Kwanza with that Uchumi coming up just before stage 1 the jam in the near future will start from Banda school...Rongai indeed needs help its hurtling out of control.
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Cde Monomotapa
#9 Posted : Thursday, September 15, 2011 7:09:12 PM
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A buddy of mine would summarize Ronga as an "Urban Slum" smile
bird_man
#10 Posted : Thursday, September 15, 2011 7:51:34 PM
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I happen to live there and I'm thinking 3yrs from now it will be looking like Githurai.
I think its a problem that's affecting most other places too.Used to live in South-B ten years ago and its slowly not looking so good esp with the 4-5 story flats.
Formally employed people often live their employers' dream & forget about their own.
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