Selective demolition of houses risks killing State’s good intent

I wrote, last week, of the poet William Wordsworth’s dotage with the illusion that was the French Revolution and his subsequent disillusionment with the bloody fiasco. I return to the revolution on account of ongoing near revolutionary demolitions on riparian land in Nairobi. A good intent, selectively executed kills the good ideal.

Is Nairobi Governor Mbuvi Sonko’s revolution skewed? Does it have eyes that see whose property to bring down and whose should be spared, although both may be sinning? A publicly circulated recording of a phone conversation that I believe took place between Governor Sonko and his Kiambu counterpart, Ferdinand Waititu, knocks you down breathless.