mukiha wrote:
#10 Posted : Thursday, August 05, 2010 1:45:08 PM
The last time we had this debate; I was almost lynched for siding with the Rundans.
True; the shilling value of the plots will go up; but the aesthetic value will drop significantly.
Also; is a road designed 25 years ago still a valid proposition today?
Any way, don't bite me: I'm just trying to bring in the other side of the coin...
yekeyeke wrote:Yes Mukiha. Its about fighting impunity and there are no rights being trampled on.
Answer for me these few simple questions:-
-In which year was the road designed and approved by the govenment?
-In which year was the first house built in Runda?
-Who was first on site and who followed?
-what commitments did the Kenya Govenment give to the UN for the UN offices to be based in Nairobi back in 1972?
-Was infrastructure and anew aiport part of these?
And please do not start arguing that road plans for 1960s are irrelevant today. We have heard that before.
If these plans were irelevant today, then why havent i heard you oppose the building of the Nanyuki, Moyale road that was agreed on between Jomo Kenyatta and Heile Selassie back in 1964.
This road is being built today and funding was signed off about one month ago.
If the people of North Kenya need a 1964 road, then people of Nairobi also need the 1969 road as well.
And why havent you come back to me regarding the interstate road ntwork in the US and how it changed the face and the economy of that country up to this date, when it was designed and built after the 2nd world war. Did you google the subject?
Do i need to mention the Uganda Railway?
@yekeyeke;
You are missing my point.
I have nothing against roads.
I support the construction of road from Isiolo to Moyale... and we should also do the Marsabit - Garrisa - Mandera too... and not to forget Garissa - Malindi, through Hola...
I do agree with you [without having to google!] that roads and other transport infrastructure fuels economic growth of a region. Indeed, I oppose the popular notion in Kenya that we should only build roads in "productive" regions.
Dr. Obare of Egerton university has proven [in his PhD thesis] that transport is the most important facilitator of economic development. As he usually quips: "don't waste money building schools and hospitals, build a road and people will use it to earn enough money to take their children to private schools and their sick to private hospitals"
So; what's my point?
Simply this: when you want to build a road and SOME people start complaining about it, don't just brash them aside as "anti-development" or "too proud". Listen to them and ask yourself this: "what is it that I am not seeing here"
There is always a second side to a story.
Nothing is real unless it can be named; nothing has value unless it can be sold; money is worthless unless you spend it.