masukuma wrote:Angelica _ann wrote:masukuma wrote:sqft wrote:Meanwhile Marsabit:
indeed Marsabit is much better place to live than Nyandarua and Elgeyo Marakwet!
They should travel around the country wajionee. In some places they cannot even sleep, pissing on themselves the whole night.
Wachana nao! Kazi ni kuGoogle photos za places halafu waweke hapa to push their selfish agenda... don’t they know that there are parts of this country called Kenya that say they are going to “Kenya” when traveling to the 100km belt of land around the railway?
Most of the development and facilities that people admire are actually private property. The nice estates kina runda, karen, kitisuru etc all those were bare lands that private individuals came together and developed including the associated infrastructure ie roads, boreholes, sewer, high speed fibre etc. You will find that the only thing the govt gave them is KPLC power. All the glittering malls in nairobi are privately funded. All the nice apartments, hotels, clubs, hospitals are private property. All the factories huko industrial area, mombasa road are private property. All the schools brookhouse, kianda, banda are private property.
The most the govt can do is build a road (tarmac or murram) to connect your town or village to the rest of the country, provide security (police stations) provide power (KPLC), telephone services (or licence 3rd parties like safaricom), build public schools, hospitals, dispensaries. Then the local authorities can handle things like water, markets, sewer etc. The last time I checked, and am widely travelled, nearly all former provincial headquaters, district hqs, townships, urban centres from lokichogio to lamu, migori to moyale, garissa to loitoktok are connected by tarmac roads, have electricity, telephone, internet, have public hospitals, public schools, police stations etc.
The govt has done its part in providing the infrastructure, hiyo ingine its upto to the residents and investors kujipanga. If an engineer from marsabit would invest his cash in his county and build a leather tanning factory due to abundance of livestock, and also build a hotel. If a lawyer from kendu bay would invest in his town and put up a fish factory and some nice club. If a businessman from mandera would invest in his town and put up a nice hotel, camel milk factory. If a bank manager from kangema would invest his cash in kangema town and put up a macadamia factory. If a businessman in kitui would invest in his town and put up a honey processing factory and a nice hotel etc. But what do all these individuals do. They all troop to nairobi to build apartments, hotels, clubs, malls, private hospitals, private schools etc. Then everyone becomes envious of the "development" in nairobi and surrounding areas. And then wrongly blames the govt for not taking development to all parts of the country. It is a big shame that many governors, senators, MPs are living in nairobi and also investing in nairobi, buying houses huko karen and building apartments, hotels hapa nairobi while they should be the ones leading private investment in their counties. Isn't it ironical that the more cash you send to the counties the more cash is brought back to nairobi for private investment?
If you want malls, apartments, clubs, hotels, gyms in your towns and villages, pole sana there is little the govt can do. Mjipange.
Proverbs 13:11 Dishonest money dwindles away, but whoever gathers money little by little makes it grow.