I agree with some of your assessment. Nairobi really went haywire under Moi. His administration did most of the damage in terms of apportioning public land to well connected individuals.

Perhaps the worst thing Moi did was disbanding the Nairobi city council and replacing it with Nairobi city commission so that Nairobians could no longer elect the mayor or any Councillors.

But it must be said that the land grabbing culture started with Kenyatta and we still haven't stopped. Now that there is not much land left to grab, schools are the next target.

I have lived and interacted with Junguz for long , though am sure there might be some wazuans who have done so longer than me. However i disagree with anyone who says us blacks are stupid bla bla.What we lack is organization.Look at yourself, around yourself and you will see the fruits of lack of organisation.Where i live, there are businesses that cannot be operated within some defined distance.Say you have a press kiosk every 500M, the municipal councils have put into place laws that say a kiosk, pharmacy, bakery etc should not be at a distance say 2Kms apart. In that case there will be no fighting over customers.I usually work early and find guys cleaning the streets as early as 4am.When people go to work at 7 or 8, the streets are already clean and you will not even see the cleaners.Routine schedules for say maintaining small stuff like flower beds have been done.
These are simple things and they are the basis of any organized society.
Look at Nairobi, when is the cleaning done? when are the dust bins emptied ? how are the shops/kiosks /house construction permits allocated ?
This starts from your home to the highest office.You are paid your salary and the first thing you do is drink a chunk at the beginning of the month and come 20th you are already waiting for the advance.

There are very bright black people out there and i think the key word is organization.

Sad for Buru some parts look like Huruma.

City hall has started redeveloping it's old estates, starting with ngara. Ngara to have 40 floor apartments.

https://www.standardmedi...cc-times-tower?pageNo=1

Just seen on 9pm news Membley residents protesting and bringing down a flat being put up in their estate. Residents associations need to be empowered to prevent such ujinga by greedy developers. If the estate regulations say only one family home can be put up on a plot that's it. If someone wants to put up flats, they can sell the plot and go buy land elsewhere and build flats in an area where they are allowed.

Most people think public green spaces are a waste of space, in Nairobi, if you are in your ka-flat and you want to soak in some sun, your options are limited, you can't seat at the road side you'll look like a mad idler, you can't go in a school ground you'll look like a pedophile, you dont want to go to Uhuru park that's mamboch,s space, so you either go to your local built on a road reserve.
In those gated Estates you all want, teens are trapped, kids can play on the streets what about the teens, when chamas come home teens either hide in their bedrooms or go to base where other teens eat miraa whistle at passing ladies, start doing drugs etc, our social hall are now only rental, churches only open their grounds to paid events or on Sundays only.
In short we don't have public areas in our residential areas so bars and clubs are the new public spaces, where you have to buy to stay.