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More needed to transform Kenya’s urban centres

A notorious characterisation of Kenyan urban centres is their spontaneous growth and haphazard development, poor planning, and the mushrooming of legal and illegal structures.

Strangely, these structures develop under the watchful eyes of elected leaders, mayors, chairs of councils, town clerks as permanent secretaries and political leadership rubberstamp them.

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