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KDF take over completion of Trauma centre, Afraha, after years of delay

Kenya Defence Forces together with County Government officials assess Trauma centre at the Nakuru County Teaching and Referral Hospital on July 1,2025. 

Photo credit: COURTESY/NGPU

By  BRET SANYA

Correspondent

Mtaa Wangu

With the Kenya Defence Forces (KDF) beginning to do site assessments of the PGH Trauma Centre, Afraha Stadium and Olenguruone Stadium there seems to be light at the end of the tunnel for these projects.

According to a post on the Nakuru County Government Facebook page the KDF were on ground on July 1. To support the process, the county administration is currently preparing essential documents including structural plans and Bills of Quantities that will guide KDF’s involvement.

“The KDF team, accompanied by County Secretary Dr. Samuel Mwaura and the Nakuru City Manager Gitau Thabanja, also inspected Afraha Stadium and expressed readiness to support its second phase of construction,” read part of the post.

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The Trauma Centre at the Nakuru County Teaching and Referral Hospital, stalled 13 years ago.

The then Medical Superintendent, James Mburu, stated that construction began in 2012 but was interrupted with the advent of devolution.

The trauma centre was designed specifically to save the lives of road accident victims, particularly along the Nakuru-Eldoret highway, notorious for the Sobea-Salgaa-Sachagwan black spot that has claimed numerous lives.

An article from Daily Nation dated January 20, 2019 revealed that by the time the project was halted, Sh. 70 million had already been spent.

The Afraha Stadium on the other hand was supposed to have been completed in 14 months; this was back in 2021. However, in four years only the first phase of the project is complete, with the second phase hanging in the balance.

At the beginning of this year sports stakeholders threatened to hold demonstrations prompting the administration to set a deadline for the partial reopening of the stadium.

Even though the stadium remains incomplete, the past two months have seen the sports facility host a number of games ranging from athletics to competitive football matches.

All these reaffirming the importance of these critical infrastructure to the sporting fraternity and Nakuru residents at large.

The site visits by the KDF comes after a consultative meeting that took place at State House Nairobi on June 11, where Governor Susan Kihika requested for national support to unlock critical projects.

At the time, the President pledged to deploy KDF to complete Afraha and Olenguruone stadiums as well as the Trauma centre at the Nakuru County Teaching and Referral Hospital.