Question: How many of the people making the decisions about the terminus actually use mathrees? Seems to me the purpose is to clear mats out of the CBD for the convenience of a tiny, wealthy minority with cars.
https://twitter.com/KTNNewsKE/status/1405839436198432777
Nairobi is still, at heart, a colonial town that believes in segregation and resents the influx of poor miros into its centre. That is why it pines for a mythical glorious past (when the miros were kept out) and hates hawkers and matatus muddying and ruining the colonial fantasy.
We must remember how hard odieros fought to keep miros out. They built Nai without public transport as it was only meant for odieros with cars. They kept miros in slums (which were periodically demolished). Miros needed a kipande to walk its streets. Little of that has changed.
Anti-miro and anti-poor is in Nairobi's DNA. The black odieros who took over at independence did little to change it, instead wailing about the evils of rural-urban migration and the indiscipline of the unwashed. Aping the whites, they refused to provide services to the miros.
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