@The cotton industry, I remember my dad telling me that Eldoret Town used to have very heavy traffic in the morning from guys going to the clothes factories but after some politically connected guys started importing mitumba, all those companies withered.

Given the damage Moi did to our dear country and countrymen/women over his 24 years of misrule, why do we cough up in excess of 2m for his 'pension' in addition to other benefits and staff every month??? Isn't ridiculous that we are as mad as Joe Jackson over this? This payments/allowances etc. need to stop. And that's just the beginning.

This fellow and his cronies continue to enjoy their ill gotten wealth in peace. We need to go after this guys with all the force we can get. Take everything back and throw them into jail!!! Oh how I wish Matiba got just one term - while in good health!!! He would have pulled this off! We need a full ministry - not department - dedicated to search and recovery of everything looted from Kenyans over the years and prosecution of the culprits. Iwe funzo kwa wengine wenye tabia kama hiyo!

Yes; Sololo = Jirongo

He'd chosen a good name for the company "Sololo Outlets" that is, an outlet for public funds!

It really pains me when I hear some people say "afadhali siku za Moi"

When you mention Moi those of the lost generation always have this angry feeling. I recall my mum's friend puttying us while we were in campus (1993-1997) and it went like this: we were so unlucky because:
1. Moi had just introduced the 8-4-4 =(0)system plus maziwa.
2. Prices of everything had just gone up courtesy of Goldenburg/Jirongo,Kosgey, Ruto....
3. Jobs were no longer assured except for those with "tall relatives".
4. Free university education (boom etc) had just been scrapped, no ice cream mayai etc and you know what became of student welfare at campuses.
5. AIDS had just set in when we were discovering ourselves (the worst the previous generation had to contend with was gono)........

I still remember this lecture so clearly, let the old man and his cronies be remembered for butchering dreams of a generation and of a nation.

@Guka, you are a well travelled dude, ebu nieleze the collapse of industries in Western/Nyanza provinces? Did Mo1 have do do with these too?

Once upon a time there was an EABL plant in Kisumu Guka what happened to it

Closed because Kisumu Council could not guarantee water supply.

When KBL applied to be allowed to build their own water treatment plant, the Kisumu Council denied permission. Their reasoning: If KBL builds the plant, the council will lose revenue since KBL will no longer buy water from them.

But this was at a time when Kisum did not have enough water even for residents!

Solution: close down the factory. Kisumu lost both the arrow and the bird [in my language we say; "kuruo ni mugui na kanyoni"]

Me too!But I think we got so much used to this President who was always there in every issue and commenting on everything plus the big one...HANDOUTS!Line up the highway and you're sure of getting something from mzee

This is one of the best improvements of the Kibaki and Kibaki-Raila regimes

Good People,

This guy and his cronies should have been jailed after a proper court process by April 2003. We would not have been having corruption problems that we are facing now. Can you imagine that between 1990 and 2002 there was absoultely no infrastructure development by government! That is why we are 'shocked ' to see Mombasa Road added a lane in was it four Months? We are still amazed by Thika Rd expansion. These things should have been done around 1992 to 1997. Then the freeways would have been done by 2002. Kibaki should have been builidng by passes for cities like Kericho and Eldoret, Meru and Isiolo.

These goons waliturudisha nyuma tu sana..... ABK!