For illustration purposes only: An overwhelming number of estate and feeder roads look like this in Eastlands.

Wajamaa please make me understand what this fella is trying to say. Is this acceptable anywhere?

The GoK seems to understand that Nairobi is filthy, stinking and rotten, hence the Ksh 7b meant for estate and feeder roads as part of the regeneration. But to me, that's a drop in the ocean.

Statehouse needs real advisors, not bloggers, not Runda cerelac babies. People who have seen it all in these uninhabitable, dangerous and dirty estates.

An attempt to Justify people living like animals in their own country, in a "top 10" African city is outright evil.

These factors ultimately lead to canalized traffic, dirty dusty muddy estates, health problems and low living standards. Those dirt roads are never swept.

When you subdivide tuplotis for sale you are supposed to provide paved roads, drainage and street lighting as one of the conditions for approval. Also surrender 10% of the land for public and social services. The mess you are witnessing up there would never have happened if the law was followed to the letter. Those roads are the responsibility of those who sold the land, not govt whether county or national. All those inner roads in eastlands, rongai, mwiki, kasarani, membley etc should have been tarmacked by the land sellers. Therefore those tenants marooned in mud should complain to their landlords who should in turn demand roads from those who sold them the land.

Listen here spoilt brat. I'm sure you've been to Karen and Kile and Runda. Who built that dense network of roads if not the GoK using public funds?

What pains you so much if the majority who happen to be Eastlanders get a similar treatment as the rich? What makes you think the rich deserve our money more than the poor hustlers of Eastlands? Wewe ni nogo tu.

I'd like to know where you fall in this divide you've created. Rich or hustler?

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Mko na maneno ndugu hardwood. You are lying through the teeth.....or is that a suggestion?

Any land, carved as a road during land subdivision, automatically becomes public land and specifically, road reserve. The "divider" has zero responsibility on the said reserve. It's 100% govt responsibility to use it as it pleases..

But that is besides the point. Huko majuu mahali haka kajamaa kalitembea, did the dividers tarmac those estates? Not.

Just because people do things the juakali way doesn't mean that is what the law says. Land sold is required by law to be serviced. Serviced with roads, drainage, street lighting, sewer etc. By road they mean a proper surfaced road (tarmac, cabro etc), not a road on a map. If land sellers/developers in upmarket areas provide roads and other services, same should be made mandatory in eastlands?

There's urgent need for the light rail system.......but who told the people of Nairobi (clueless middle-class) and most if not all Govt policy makers that Matatus are the problem?

Here's what I know on matters transport in the city:
40% - Matatus
40% - Walking
5% or less - Train
5% or less - Boda boda
10% - PERSONAL fkcin CARS.

Only 10% of the travelers clog the roads all day long. Matatus are not, have never been, and will never be the problem, even 14 seaters. What lacks is oversight on the matatu crews. We have no body mandated to ruthlessly keep these crazies in check (we killed NTSA, but in any case, NTSA was also clueless, and cannibalized itself by targeting private motorists). Forget about the Kiganjo alumni.

If I were Unye, I'd get NTSA back on the roads, with strict instructions of streamlining public & commercial transport, by way of focusing on the crews and not punishing vehicle owners.....starting with Nairobi. Very doable, and sustainable.

Over time I have consolidated, in my mind, what I think are very practical and rather obvious solutions. In a nutshell:

1. Light rail or tram system covering all the densely populated estates and wherever most cars crawl from.

2. A body over-sighting matatu crews to very strict standards. State owned buses is just another loss making and thieving scam waiting to happen.

3. Feeder roads interconnecting major roads and estates.

4. Endeavour to totally eliminate DUST and MUD on the estate roads, which will encourage WALKING (to work or to the nearest Matatu terminus). Mtu akitoka kwa nyumba apana kanyanga matope na vumbi, otherwise itabidi atoke na gari.

5. Massive investment in sidewalks. We have been doing them as a by-the-way, to very low standards, and they barely last 2 years.

Another kaploti for sale. Maguta maguta. Fully serviced. As you can see, roads come first. Not kupeleka a road grader to the site and clear some shrubs then you call it a road as our kaploti sellers do.


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At the end of the day, these images are the face of Nairobi. Tupende tusipende. You cannot convince anybody out there that those poor idiots of Eastlands should have built the roads themselves.

Yet a simple Google search brings them out. Other than this boy, is there anybody else who supports this level of neglect?

We have rural roads that are barely used. The famous Nyoka Nyoka road, is so deserted you'd think you're in Somalia. Yet human beings live like this.

It's the same story with Ruiru, Juja, Thika, Witeithie. People live like animals in some of these so called towns. Nothing to smile about.

I belong to the group that can afford fairly decent livelihood. But if this is the casual attitude we treat fellow struggling Kenyans, we're going nowhere.

Can wazua's give their input tusikie, maybe I care too much about backwardness.........