I watched in pain as the Mayor tried to explain their incompetence during fire outbreaks.

So the Goverment commissioned 3 state of the art fire engines and according to honourable Mayor they are no where to be found??? Like seriously?

They just showed us pics of the engines so in whose backyard are they?? Big engines that size?
or were they reduced to spareparts?
Now the Mayor wants the Minister to allocate funds to buy more?? more?
Don't I just love my city.


What beats me is the Mayor acknowledging that he was shocked not to see any of those engines at Kimathi house yesterday.

So the Mayor has absolutely no clue about his firefighting department and its survival?
Whose responsibility is it to ensure the department functions well?

When the private companies step in to assist I believe they contracted by the NCC? ,meaning its not a free service.

Just when I thought we were heading somewhere with 2030 vision people are talking like the did in the 80s.
I give up.What a council!

Sold to one of the private firms you saw happilly fighting fire jana,kanjo contracts them in times of emergency like last night.
HII NI KENYA!!!

In kenya, disaster preparedness ni hadithi za kaka sungura. wait and how the rain will 'catch us in surprise'.

A much as we would like to blame the council, the building owner should have had a fire fighting reserve tank which is mandatory when gating approvalsh.the hydrants should be easily accessible and with enough water at the right pressure to fight off the fire.we can't expect two tankers to put off
such a fire, once their reserves were over they would have connected to the hydrants and continue fighting the fire

Lets blame the victim shall we! Then vote Kisia for Governor.

i remember there was a ceremony at kicc to give ccn fire fighting trucks ( about 8 of them ). kwani kuliendaje ?

Wait a sec! No building in this city is approved and dimmed fit for occupancy if it doesn't have fire fighting equipment.But you and I know that some buildings skip that,not the likes of Kimathi house though.Reason being it's in a central place,central street just opposite a 5 star hotel besides it houses lawyers offices. Well lawyers should know better than to occupy an office that could go up in flames any minute.

That aside, what time did the fire start? Was there a security guy and if so was he able to access the fire fighting equip?.Would you risk your life trying to put a fire of that magnitude? First thing is run cz of the deafening explosions and carbon emitted.Its not even wise to act hero in such cases.

I rem when the bomb blast happened,it was brought to our notice that most of the city hydrants don't work! Then the talk about repairing them started.
Now how many years are those and how many fires have we had since then? including the Nakumatt one?

Can this council stop fooling us and blaming the victim! These building remit rent and other rates to the council.It's therefore the council responsibility to look after its citizens who pay tax to its accounts or else they pack and go!
This kind of reasoning is not healthy in these times.

And I doubt some people are qualified to lead city councils.What they are capable of managing are village council of elders judging from their talk.

We still would like to know if what the Gone for Sure uses is what the goverment commissioned cz makosa imefanyika if that is so.

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We are simply not prepared for disasters. Commonsense is never taught in school even harvard don't do it. Knowing that fire might happens any time in any of the buildings in town and in the 10th floor requires just commonsense to plan for it.

It was pathetic to see some law firm employees display someones Title deed and behaving like CCN was supposed to buy them fire proof cabinets

@Elder it is serious how some of the lawyers handle our documents you just find these documents lying all over their offices its like they don't know the value of that paper. Once you in the office its when you hear something like Document ya huyu iko wapi?