Mzalendo Kibunjia and attack dogs,spare me...

This is not hate speech and so Mzalendo Kibunjia and his attack dogs should spare me. But clearly the way youths in Nyanza and those in Nairobi regard money are totally different. Yesterday we ran a story on Prince Charles and how his love of sweet potatoes is benefiting farmers, including a high school dropout who plans to buy a powerful music system with his windfall earnings, never mind that he has no access to electricity and that he could use the cash to finish his education. Ask a young man in Nairobi what he would do with Sh57,000 and you can be sure investing in small business will top his list. If the young man from Kabondo  is representative of the region, then its leaders have a lot of work to do.

There was an audit done this year by the Nairobi county government under Governor Evans Kidero that exposed the deep rot in the council. It emerged that 92 per cent of the employees are not qualified for their jobs. These include the thugs operating as City Council askaris who harass motorists in an extortion racket in cahoots with parking boys (they are not really boys since most are over the age of 18 years) and parking attendants. Nothing much has happened since the audit, but for the corruption networks at City Hall, it is business as usual.      

 I’m no fan of one Kamlesh Pattni because I believe the Goldenberg scam was the genesis of Kenya’s economic woes. That is my personal opinion. However, the flagrant disregard for public property displayed by KAA in demolishing the duty-free shops at JKIA is shocking. Millions of shillings worth of goods were destroyed, including expensive single malt whiskey and colognes. I swear I saw several green bottles of delicious Jameson whiskey in the pile of destruction! Today, several families have lost their livelihood because of a war between Big Brother and Pattni, a man I can bet my last coin most of them have never even met. This is scary coming on the back of the demolitions on Nairobi’s southern by-pass.

And finally...

Robert Mugabe has won the Zimbabwe election which the nonagenarian rigged before it even took place. No news there!