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DEVELOPMENT OF KENYA
In the 21st Century I stand here as proud to be Kenyan but I am not proud of the rate of development. It is appalling that today in Nairobi there is no waterflowing in taps where people have the money to pay for the water used.What happens to those who cannot even afford water to drink, those whohave no taps, not even houses to install the taps?Is this the growing GDP that we want? Every day I recall as I worked at myComputer services business in Nairobi's Satellite Estate in Kawangware,there would be a blackout at 7:55 am in the morning. We have lived in ablackout for long enough I think and its time someone shed some light on thereal extent of this huge disregard of Kenyan's basic needs by the corruptGovernment system.After starting business early in the morning with a blackout, I sat outside myshop watching as the sun rose, as fellow Kenyans walked on 6" inches of snow...oops! I mean dust on their way to work. Loses are part of the Kenyandream, a dream lived by each person trying to make a living. vehicles andbuses speed outside my shop as if the bumps are mere molehills, leavingbehind enormous clouds of dust that is swept by the wind right into theshops and houses next to the road, right into my nostrils as I try to cover mymouth and right into the fans of my computers and photocopy machines. Aneighborhood that looks like a garden, when you get to the bus stop youhave to get your shoes cleaned, perhaps get a pedicure to rid you off thelayers of dust, germs and who knows what that has piled up on your legs andarms as you try to head to work.It is a painful story when I recall the huge loses I incurred when trying to fixmachinery owing to dust as my fellow Kenyans rush to the garage to spendthousands every week on shock absorbers that have been destroyed by thepothole riddled roads. Millions of shillings are spent on loses caused by thepoor development of our roads, of our infrastructure that never was andcorrupt Government system.I sit outside my shop basking, watching the sun rise and waiting for thepower blackout to end, for some electricity to return so I can do somephotocopy services and make a living, maybe get food for lunch. Deep inmind I know that power may not return till the sun sets, and so I sit chattingwith my fellow businessmen. Riruta Satellite which was then under BethMugo was known to be a desert because of lack of water. Water is a scarcecommodity is this place and so it is even more pointless for me to wash myshop. On the opposite side of the road we see women and children bendingat the roadside holding water jars and containers for carrying water. Theymanage to tap water from a leaking pipe. The pipe has been there for manyyears and is always leaking. This is a great help to the many families thatrely on this alternative water source, when the City council is unable toprovide a regular water supply to the homesteads of this Constituency. 
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scentiall

more analysis will be here soon. let us open our eyes and scrutinize all our world leaders

reply03 / 08 / 2008
yaoll123

i want to know more

reply03 / 06 / 2008
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