Nairobi Governor Evans Kidero has honoured three Kenyans for their contribution to the growth of democracy in the country.
He celebrated the late Prof Wangari Maathai, a renowned environmentalist and a Nobel Peace Prize winner by renaming the famous Forest Road Wangari Maathai Road.
Kidero appreciated her relentless efforts in conserving the environment. Wangari became the first African woman to receive the Nobel Peace Prize in 2004 after decades of environmental and political activism to conserve forests in Kenya and beyond.
The road between City Hall Annexe, past Cardinal Otunga Plaza to Uhuru Highway will now be known as Cardinal Otunga Road after the governor honoured the late Catholic cleric.
Cardinal Otunga subscribed to a belief that the marginalised deserved compassionate justice as he decried “extreme materialism” in both public and private spheres.
Speaking on behalf of his boss during Mashujaa Day celebrations at Pumwani grounds in Starehe constituency, Nairobi county secretary Robert Ayisi said Otunga never tired of reminding his listeners that “extreme materialism is the enemy of genuine human growth and development”.
Kidero also renamed Cross Road in the CBD after Nairobi’s first African city Mayor Charles Rubia. Last month, Rubia returned to City Hall for the first time in five decades where he called on Kenyans to conduct peaceful election next year.
The veteran multiparty crusader also urged Kidero to embrace urbanisation and warned that systemic disregard for law, rules, and order may lead to anarchy.
The event was presided over by Nairobi county secretary Robert Ayisi, deputy county commissioner Kibet Boen and Starehe MP Maina Kamanda.
Other roads in Nairobi whose names have been changed before include Sadler Street which was renamed Koinage Street, Lord Delamere Avenue renamed Kenyatta Avenue and Government Road renamed Moi Avenue.
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