Hardwood, why are you complaining. The people in this area loved that dam. They loved it sooo much that when Koigi opposed it, he was given 15 votes. Wacha wakenya wajikaange na mafuta yao.

A dam should ALWAYS be built with the wall curving inwards not outwards like in the killer dam. Who built or approved this dam? He needs to compensate all the victims.

And how do you think people get away with such shoddy construction? By bribing local officials. Our corruption is literally killing us. We vote in corrupt officials and act surprised when disasters like this happen.

Same thing is happening in Nairobi. Why is Nairobi always flooded. because politicians grabbed land that was meant for drainage channels. Why is traffic endless? Because land for road reserves were grabbed.

Why is Kenyatta not for the faint hearted? Pure corruption and incompetence.

As Alma1 said above, we are reaping what we sowed. We support corrupt politicians and so we have no right to expect better.

I am sure the people responsible for this disaster will not be held accountable

Before the railhead reached Nairobi, the central economic activity for the young town had been big game hunting. By 1900, the town was a single street, driven by commerce as Asian railway builders settled in tin shacks on the plain. Beyond that street “lay the swamp where frogs lived every night at dusk they used to bark out their vibrant chorus and spread a cloak of deep, incessant sound over the little township” as Elspeth Huxley writes in White Mans Country.

On 18 May 1906, Sir James Sadler, commissioner for the Protectorate, wrote to Winston Churchill, Undersecretary of State for the Colonies, complaining about the emergence of Kenya’s capital: “…at the commencement of the 1902 plague…the then-commissioner, Sir Charles Elliot, was strongly of the opinion that the site, which had been selected three years before by the manager of the Uganda Railway without consulting medical or sanitary authorities, was, with its inadequate drainage, unsuitable for a large and growing population. [It is a] depression with a very thin layer of soil or rock. The soil was water-logged during the greater part of the year.”

The letter further reminds Churchill of the 1902 recommendation to move the city “to some point on the hills.” Sadler told Churchill this was a critical point in Nairobi’s history; that his predecessor had said: “…when the rainy season commenced, the whole town is practically transformed into a swamp.”

Good observation. However this was not the view during Governor Odhiambo's reign, what changed? Competency bar lowered

Who wants to bet that nothing will happen to Patel? Who will bet against?