Hundreds spend night in traffic jam trying to beat lockdown

The traffic snarl-up. [Courtesy]

Hundreds of weary motorists spent the night sitting in queues of grinding traffic along the Nairobi-Nyeri highway on Friday as many attempted to beat a ban on all travel in the capital and out of four other counties.

The gridlock that occurred between Makuyu and Kenol section saw motorists, a majority of whom were leaving Nairobi for upcountry, spending hours on journeys that usually took minutes.