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What is international about our sporting facilities and airports?

Kisumu International Airport in a photo taken on June 26th 2020. (Collins Oduor, Standard)

Many years ago, a Kenyan radio journalist, while reporting from the scene of an inferno, said the fire was of international standards.

Just to put you up to speed, on August 19, 2000 a train from Mombasa to Nairobi with eight tanker wagons of liquefied gas exploded and caught fire in Athi River.

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