Badi: Either fit in or change the city

General Mohammed Badi, allow me to address you. You have been wittingly handed great authority and responsibility to be legendary. Nairobi City is in your hands. Seize this moment for posterity. Needless to remind you of the reasons for your unprecedented appointment as Director General of Nairobi Metropolitan Service (NMS), history will be fair enough to document this for future generations.

It would be a travesty if I fail to remind you of just one of your predecessor’s sins; the human tongue is a ravaging beast that few can master. Incessantly, it struggles to break from the York, and if not tamed, its consequence is grief. Simply, power cannot accrue to those who squander their treasure of words. Engrave this in your heart as you serve. As an army general, I am sure you are aware people have a sixth sense for the weakness of others. City residents are the embodiment of this sense. If you show your willingness to compromise or retreat, you will bring out the lion even in those not necessarily bloodthirsty. Be a veritable garden of rules.