I saw this status update from one Nairobian and wondered whether Kenyans are their own worst enemies..I'd like your thoughts on the same, maybe I am just an optimist:
I live in akiba, South C. This morning, having arisen early to listen to Obama's SOTU speech and having heard him talk in real terms about increasing minimum wage by 33% immediately, broadband I.T. to 20 million tois, health care with no pre-conditions by March 31st, military withdrawals by end year plus veterans' fund, housing, women's rights in the workplace, and so on, with/out Congress; I compare BO to UK and our sad State and what I've heard this year so far from our Gava - no more mention of a million jobs ( let alone minimum wage, just watch all those Kibra chaps walking on Mbagathi way to Inda to work for Indians for next to nada), white elephant laptops, 200 000 kids bila school after KCPE every year, forced NSSF increases bila NHIF benefits, useless KDF, talk of Railway cartels ( like our digital guys won't make billions from SGR), high income housing bubble bila low income housing, Kafogo and primordial ideas about our women, and a Parliament of Pigs that is there to feed, I think of my south c neighbourhood. And realize we are like the tois in Mama Ngina's home, and America like that Asian mansion across the orphanage, where there Dear Daddy is seriously taking care of them.