Syokimau

Syokimau is a residential area in the west of Machakos County, Kenya, just south of Nairobi and Jomo Kenyatta International Airport.

The place is named after the great Prophetess and healer Syokimau of the Akamba people. Syokimau Prophesied the coming of the white people to Kenya and also prophesied the construction of the Mombasa to Kisumu railway line. In her prophecy she said she could see people of a different colour carrying fire inside waters which was later to be understood as white people in vessels carrying matchboxes and guns. She prophesied seeing a long snake that whose head was in the Indian Ocean and the tail was in Lake Victoria.

Transport

In November 2012, the Kenyan government officially opened a new metro rail service station in Syokimau, with a service leading to the Nairobi railway station and the Central Business District. Syokimau is serviced by 2 trains to Nairobi town in the morning, with 2 trains back in the evening every weekday.[1]

Syokimau is the main stop for the Mombasa-Nairobi Standard Gauge Railway. The Mombasa South railway station is being built next to the existing Syokimau station, which allows passengers to transfer between the standard gauge and metre gauge trains.[2]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Traffic-clogged Nairobi opens commuter rail route, 16 November 2012, CapitalFM, Retrieved 29 October 2015
  2. ↑ Chao-Blasto, Sandra; Njoroge, Kiarie (January 13, 2016). "Mombasa SGR passengers to change trains at Syokimau".

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Coordinates: 1°21′38″S 36°56′07″E / 1.36046°S 36.935291°E / -1.36046; 36.935291


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