Question: Kamau says GoK has negotiated with @JNJNews to get 13m vaccine doses for delivery in August. A few weeks ago, the director of @AfricaCDC told CNN they already had 220m doses of the same vaccine available for African countries to collect. Why didn't GoK go for that?
Actually, i think it was BBC, not CNN.
devex.com/news/african-u…
The AU had actually secured 400m doses according to this. One would assume we could get a better deal as part of this than on our own.
Why are we negotiating on our own for just 13m doses when it seems we could potentially get enough to vaccinate everybody?
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Question: When one applies for a replacement document online on @eCitizenKenya and the system says it is ready, why does one need to pay to print out a physical copy of the form in order to collect it? GoK already has the digital copy, no? Seems like a bit of a scam to me.
Also, if the document is ready, why not send you a digital copy that you can print out? This idea of having people spend hours to pick up "original" documents seems most anachronistic for a GoK that used to describe itself as "digital", no?
Presented my form and now waiting in a large crowded hall for someone to call out my name (no one tells you exactly what it is you are waiting for) and I shudder to think of how folks who are deaf or hard of hearing are expected to navigate this.
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.
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.
Perhaps this from Lord Colyton in the UK House of Lords on 15 July 1963, the month after the first #MadarakaDay, offers some clues. Basically, he says it was about allowing institutions to find their feet before full independence. A trial run of sorts. api.parliament.uk/historic-hansa…