Hundreds of commuters along the Isinya/Konza road were stranded for close to seven hours on Monday morning after morans closed the route over its bad state.
More than 200 morans used electricity poles, and huge stones to block the road from 4am, causing a traffic snarl stretching for over 3km.
Efforts by the police to open up the road hit a snag as the morans threatened them with a retaliation "that would make them regret for the rest of their lives".
They claimed the road had been neglected by the national government for years without repair.
“This is a national classified road under Kenya Rural Roads Authority and for the last ten years, we have been making appeals to the government. We cannot transport our farm products to the markets because of the state of this road,” one of the morans, Joshua Olowuasa said.
Olowuasa, however, told the morans to demonstrate peacefully as they wait for word from the government.
He asked the county government to provide resources to repair bad sections of the 50km road stretch so the farmers can transport their produce.
Another local elder, Moses Leir, claimed most of the investors in the area had failed to maintain the road.
Leir said only one investor, PJ Dave who grows cut flowers for export, has been liaising with the local community whenever the road is in a terrible state.
“We are having problems with other investors like Green City, Mboga Two, Kitili Farm, Biju Farm, and Warabu Farm. While we accuse them on reneging on their corporate social responsibility, we are also asking KeRRA to come and take responsibility for their road,” Leir said.
County Roads Minister, Dickson Ntikoisa, who arrived at 9am promised the residents that the county government would only provide a temporary solution on the road by repairing damaged portions after the rains have subsided.
But Ntikoisa apportioned blame on the residents of Isinya for failing to attend to public participation forums on development where the community discuss their ward budget and state what they want the county government to fund.
“In the absence of their input during such forums, the executive cannot just use the Sh40 million we give towards for development purposes," he said.