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The Aftermath

Tag Kidero...

Araa kumbe unafanya kazi mavoko

Forget Tanzania, they are not tribal voters.

In Kenya we have chosen to vote on tribal basis. So politicians don't feel obligated to solve issues like service delivery traffic or corruption. The key to getting elected is to form tribal blocs. Service delivery is not important to Kenyan voters.

You come to wazua to complain about traffic. Then in 2017 you vote on tribal basis instead of issue based voting. Five years from now you will be complaining even more about traffic because the city is only becoming more crowded. By 2018 the population will reach 5 million.

Either Kenyans start becoming more issue oriented voters and get some improved infrastructure. Or we continue to emphasize tribal voting and get worsening infrastructure.

PS Nairobi's infrastructure problems require intervention from the national government. The City leadership is incompetent. But even they alone cannot solve it. Issues like the grabbing of land on road reserves need to be addressed.

First off I think Kidero was voted not on tribal basis but because he was a corporate CEO and people thought his corporate leadership skills would fix the mess that is Nairobi.

The good news is that it is unlikely that Kidero will be re-elected. I am not even sure he will try. So at least there is no sycophancy around Kidero. He has no sycophantic followers Either he performs or he is gone.

However You are naive if you think he alone can solve Nairobi's problems. As I posited above, the problems are so complex and so myriad that a governor cannot solve them.

Also it is the height of nonsense to expect a governor to solve in 3 years problems that have taken 50 years to create.

Part of the reason we are in this mess is that for 50 years, we as Kenyans have voted in land grabbers. We vote land grabbers in because tribal affiliation is most important to us as Kenyans.

Along with their cohorts they have grabbed land that was set aside for roads expansion, fire stations, police stations, housing, sewers, drainage, refuse processing etc etc. Now there is nowhere to expand such facilities. And even if there was land available, our leaders do not feel obligated to improve infrastructure.

We are now paying for 50 years of tribal voting yet we still haven't learned a lesson. We are still intent on making the same mistakes in 2017. We deserve what we get.

I say this as a person who does'nt even live in Nairobi yet each time I visit I marvel at the mess that city has become.

No wonder Moi said Mwafrigha Bhure ghabisa

Wenzetu wako down, but hapa wametunyosha kumi bila.......... that system would efficiently work in Nairobi but if slighlty expanded such that the Rapid Transit lanes accommodate 4 lanes............... am sure 120 buses would be enough to ease the nairobi traffic.....and the buses are very long, and allows for standing passengers, so per trip, it can accommodate more than 130 passengers....

Apart from the poor planning,corruption et al ,Nairobi issue with drainage started in 1902 when the colonial government identified the location.In a different forum,a letter to the then Colonial Governor from Public health official was revealed(it can be found at the archives)So the Long term solution for Nairobi's Drainage problem is simply identify another location and start building a new city.Otherwise its now 114 years since the drainage song began...

I saw an article on this. think it was by blogger owaah

The Brits wanted to move the city northwards but the railway guys blocked it. Rail transport was a key determinant of urban growth