The Kenya Urban Roads Authority (KURA) has clarified that viral “housing-like” structures along Kenyatta Avenue are temporary safety walls for a new viaduct, not houses, dispelling jokes and rumors about affordable housing on the road.

• The concrete pillars are a temporary masonry wall to protect workers during construction of the Valley Road–Kenyatta Avenue interchange and overpass.
• Eng. Benjamin Asin, Assistant Director in the Directorate of Urban Roads Design and Planning at KURA, confirmed the structures are for a viaduct to ease traffic congestion.
• The project, stalled due to Ksh175 billion in pending road bills owed to 580 contractors, resumed thanks to a securitization intervention and is now expected to be completed by December 17, 2026.