masukuma wrote:Angelica _ann wrote:murchr wrote:masukuma wrote:I have never understood why people celebrate the demolition of buildings instead of taxing or taking over them... don't they see it as a loss to the collective? it's like killing a child who is a product of some bad sexual relation. Should the parents be punished - yes! I see people clapping when someone elses 1B goes down the drain instead of thinking... now this guy... tutafanya nini we profit from this thing?
instead of taxing or taking over them. = Legitimizing graft.
Promote impunity
No... it's waste... regardless of how you look at it! It's pitiful waste!
@Masukuma, you are over-valuing tangible things and under-valuing intangible things. The continued presence of these buildings on reparian land and road reserves is a visible sign of impunity to the masses, it is impretive they are brought down.
Their demolition is a great and lasting visual image to Kenyans of the futility of impunity and corruption. This has far great value to us as a country than a measly, Ill-gotten Ksh 1B here and there.
The truth is we cannot build a society with integrity, on a foundation that lacks integrity. All those things lacking integrity we built will have to go, be demolished to the ground and we start again. Entire suburbs like Zimmerman will have to be razed to the ground at some point, so a mall and there is peanuts.