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Nairobi one big slum, but we can change it

Traffic snarl-up in the Nairobi CBD. [Elvis Ogina, Standard]

Last week, a friend who lives in Nairobi’s Ngong suburb was stuck in a traffic jam for hours. The congestion was occasioned by traffic clogging within a residential estate with highrise flats and a road infrastructure that can barely serve all vehicles there.

This shows how chronic housing problems create a chain reaction that adversely affects roads, sanitation, children’s welfare, public health, stress levels and security, among other life-threatening challenges that also mess our environment.

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