We live in a nation of contradictions.
Where the president will begin his speech with "ndugu zanguni" then wonder why citizens are broke
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A nation where leaders promise 500,000 affordable houses then demolish homes in the midst of a pandemic
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Where the president will begin his speech with "ndugu zanguni" then wonder why citizens are broke
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A nation where leaders promise 500,000 affordable houses then demolish homes in the midst of a pandemic
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And all because of a project starting in the middle of the worst floods we've seen
Athi Water Services Board CEO Mwangi Thuita said that while he sympathised with the victims, the demolition had to proceed because the project had to be commissioned.
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And all because of a project starting in the middle of the worst floods we've seen
Athi Water Services Board CEO Mwangi Thuita said that while he sympathised with the victims, the demolition had to proceed because the project had to be commissioned.
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We live in a country where the Cabinet Secretary for Education, the man with a 99-page resume and who claims genius-level IQ, cannot figure out how to resolve the education crisis caused by the pandemic
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We live in a country where the Cabinet Secretary for Education, the man with a 99-page resume and who claims genius-level IQ, cannot figure out how to resolve the education crisis caused by the pandemic
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The same Cabinet Secretary who announced that e-learning wasn't a problem because "most pupils have smartphones", a blatant lie and abdication of responsibility... at a time when that high IQ should be put to use resolving a mounting crisis.
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The same Cabinet Secretary who announced that e-learning wasn't a problem because "most pupils have smartphones", a blatant lie and abdication of responsibility... at a time when that high IQ should be put to use resolving a mounting crisis.
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And let's not forget that this is the same country where billions were lost because even the purchase of laptops, that MIGHT now be in use, could not be executed without the wanton looting we are all so accustomed to now.
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And let's not forget that this is the same country where billions were lost because even the purchase of laptops, that MIGHT now be in use, could not be executed without the wanton looting we are all so accustomed to now.
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And don't get me started on the utter stupidity of purchasing laptops for students in a country where many of our children do not even have decent classrooms, let alone facilities that could support learning via digital devices.
And don't get me started on the utter stupidity of purchasing laptops for students in a country where many of our children do not even have decent classrooms, let alone facilities that could support learning via digital devices.
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A country where the Ministry of Health spends Sh4mn in four weeks on tea and snacks and Sh70mn on communications even as citizens cannot afford the masks and sanitizers needed to keep them safe from the covid-19 pandemic
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A country where the Ministry of Health spends Sh4mn in four weeks on tea and snacks and Sh70mn on communications even as citizens cannot afford the masks and sanitizers needed to keep them safe from the covid-19 pandemic
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A country where not too long ago, the president's own relatives were paid an amount equal to 50 times that spent recently on tea and snacks, through a company registered just 5 months after the 2013 elections
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A country where not too long ago, the president's own relatives were paid an amount equal to 50 times that spent recently on tea and snacks, through a company registered just 5 months after the 2013 elections
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And let's not forget that Sh1bn, money that could've been put to improving healthcare, was lost via the procurement of 99 painted containers sold as "mobile clinics"
Ironically, the containers were transported to Mathari Hospital in the dead of night.
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And let's not forget that Sh1bn, money that could've been put to improving healthcare, was lost via the procurement of 99 painted containers sold as "mobile clinics"
Ironically, the containers were transported to Mathari Hospital in the dead of night.
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Where 200 people have died from flooding and over 100,000 displaced yet there's not a drop of water for the privileged few who have piped water.
And this, 46 years after the government promised “Water for all by the year 2000,” in 1974.
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Where 200 people have died from flooding and over 100,000 displaced yet there's not a drop of water for the privileged few who have piped water.
And this, 46 years after the government promised “Water for all by the year 2000,” in 1974.
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Yet, it's very probable that over Sh27 billion for the building of dams, supposedly stolen by the country's own Treasury Chief, could have gone to saving the very lives that are now being lost each and every day.
Supposedly, because that's bullshit.
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Yet, it's very probable that over Sh27 billion for the building of dams, supposedly stolen by the country's own Treasury Chief, could have gone to saving the very lives that are now being lost each and every day.
Supposedly, because that's bullshit.
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A country where an organisation founded in 1964 to inculcate national values in the youth, by the same man who founded Starehe Boys Centre, has become synonymous with the most egregious, appalling acts of grand larcency & corruption known to mankind.
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A country where an organisation founded in 1964 to inculcate national values in the youth, by the same man who founded Starehe Boys Centre, has become synonymous with the most egregious, appalling acts of grand larcency & corruption known to mankind.
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We live in a country where 98 years after Kenya Power was founded in 1922, most of the country still lives in darkness and we are in mortal fear of being put on a ventilator at a time when you can't get three days of continuous power supply
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We live in a country where 98 years after Kenya Power was founded in 1922, most of the country still lives in darkness and we are in mortal fear of being put on a ventilator at a time when you can't get three days of continuous power supply
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The very same Kenya Power that has minted fabulous wealth for a select few robber barons and left the country burdened with massive loans taken 30 years ago for non-existent projects like the Ewaso Nyiro hydro-electric plant.
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The very same Kenya Power that has minted fabulous wealth for a select few robber barons and left the country burdened with massive loans taken 30 years ago for non-existent projects like the Ewaso Nyiro hydro-electric plant.
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Even with the lack of leadership we have, the one constant and the biggest contradiction has been the unabated rise in pay for our leaders.
In a country where the GDP/Capita is $1,710, Kenyan MPs are paid a whooping $150K/yr vs $100K for British MPs.
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Even with the lack of leadership we have, the one constant and the biggest contradiction has been the unabated rise in pay for our leaders.
In a country where the GDP/Capita is $1,710, Kenyan MPs are paid a whooping $150K/yr vs $100K for British MPs.
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Finally, let me remind you of how our highly paid, God-chosen leaders flaunt it in our faces, even as they do absolutely nothing for the citizenry.
Remember Ephraim Maina, the cat who flew in a chopper to commission a wooden "bridge"?
Finally, let me remind you of how our highly paid, God-chosen leaders flaunt it in our faces, even as they do absolutely nothing for the citizenry.
Remember Ephraim Maina, the cat who flew in a chopper to commission a wooden "bridge"?
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Or the other cartoon, Kithure Kindiki, who flew in a chopper to go build a mud classroom costing half as much as his chopper ride?
How is that classroom holding up right now, by the way?
Or the other cartoon, Kithure Kindiki, who flew in a chopper to go build a mud classroom costing half as much as his chopper ride?
How is that classroom holding up right now, by the way?
