Shame of grandiose ideas that can’t solve Nairobi’s problems

Lie, deny and defy. If ever there was a chaotic city whose residents and administrators employ Trumpian strategy to gloss over their failings, then Nairobi it is.

To use cricketing terms, Nairobi has been on a sticky wicket and efforts to rescue its innings fail because residents at all levels of the economy and governance love its smorgasbord of acrid stenches, which matches their attitude towards a clean environment and an orderly ecosystem.