Five Kenyans appeared before a Mombasa Law Court on Monday August 4 and pleaded guilty to encroachment following a case filed by the Kenya National Highway Authority (KeNHA).

In an update issued on Tuesday, KeNHA revealed that the five had ignored several notices to vacate a road reserve along the Mombasa-Nairobi highway issued on April 4.

The authority also warned others planning to do the same that they would be in violation of Section 49(1)(a) read with Section 49(6) of the Kenya Roads Act No. 2 of 2007. "The accused failed to comply with vacation notices from the road reserve issued on April 4, 2025, by ALEHU Coast Region officers along the Mombasa - Nairobi Highway (A8) Road," KeNHA stated.

A photo collage of road structures that encroached on the Mombasa-Nairobi Highway.