sqft wrote:
Most of upper hill, kileleshwa, kilimani were housing areas for senior govt officers, houses on quarter or half acres. But moi dished all those houses to his cronies including the nairobi mayor's house which was given to Gumo. Then dished ADC land all over the country. Then Prisons and KARI land in kitale, nakuru and elsewhere, NYS land in yatta (to watermelon & co), forest land in mau etc. It was thievery as never seen anywhere else in the world.
Moi didn't just dish out houses. He also dished out tracts of land to his cronies within city environs. For example Sunview Estate on Mbagathi way was given to general Mahmoud Muhammad supposedly for stopping the fake coup. Muhammed then proceeded to build Sunview estate which was so poorly constructed that some of the houses had cracks on the wall within months after being occupied. The Ministry of health was forced to buy the houses to house KNH doctors.
This dishing out of parcels of land is one of the factors that contributed significantly to the fact that Nairobi is so poorly planned. As I said above, this was often land that in the original Nairobi master plan was meant for road expansion, fire stations, police stations, drainage channels etc.
If Moi was so good as Wukan is claiming, he should have at least insisted on sticking to Nairobi's original master plan.
Again I am not blaming Moi for everything. All four Kenyan presidents and the people who supported them are to blame.