An easy guide on how to fix what ails Nairobi city

A man walks past a heap of garbage in Kibra, Nairobi. [Elvis Ogina, Standard]

All major cities of the world face various challenges. But it is how well prepared and planned the city is to deal with this challenges that make the difference. The city authority must pay more than the usual attention to these issues to make a city more liveable. Traffic jams is not unique to Nairobi neither are the issues of informal settlements or rising crime rates.

What some of these challenges highlight is that the rural urban migration is a reality and the city is not able to construct enough houses, improve or increase services at the rate it receives the new comers into the city.