Eng. Luka Kipchumba Kimeli, DG @KeNHAKenya ๐ซก
I greet you today in the name of Lord Vishnu.
Not because I suspect you practice Hinduism, but because your fear for Lord Jesus is clearly at zero.
Probably because of Pastor Kanyari and his colleagues whoโve been using that name as a business name for so long you stopped taking it seriously.
But be assured Engineer, He is still very much operational.
I come to you most days NOT because I want your job.
I come because I genuinely believe your employment letter has my name written all over it.
Now look at this image.
That mountain of sand.
Sitting. In the MIDDLE of Waiyaki Way.
Opposite Njugunaโs place.
On one of the busiest highways in East Africa.
Just sitting there for days.
No warning signs.
No barriers. No apology. Just sand.
Proud sand. Unbothered sand.
Engineer, I know your children are abroad. Safe. Warm.
Probably in a country where a civil servant would lose sleep and their job if they left a sand mountain on a highway overnight.
But Wafula from Kangemi?
His children are squeezed in a single room in Kangemi.
They have nowhere to go.
But they want to see him come home.
Not in a casket.
Kamau from Kinoo?
Yes he drinks.
Yes heโs occasionally useless to his family on weekends.
But even his family who have every reason to complain would still rather hear his noise every evening than attend his funeral because a contractor left unmarked sand on Waiyaki Way at night.
This is conduct unbecoming Engineer.
Your equivalent abroad where your children live loses sleep over things like this.
You? Youโre sleeping like a man with zero outstanding items.
You and I must agree on one thing today.
Let us hate mediocrity together.
Let us set a bare minimum, you from UoN, me from Kingeero Polytechnic and agree that mountains of sand on highways with zero warnings is below that minimum.
This has to be cleared today.
Not tomorrow. Today!
Your favorite villager. Still watching. Always watching. ๐
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The tall, mushroom-shaped concrete structure standing in Donholm, Nairobi, is a colonial-era elevated water tower built in the early 1900s.
It was constructed by Scottish landowner, architect, and farmer James Kerr Watson to supply water under gravity pressure to his large dairy farm and surrounding areas. The tower remains a distinctive local landmark amid the dense urban development of Eastlands.
James Kerr Watson (1881โ1955) arrived in Nairobi from Scotland in 1908. He acquired approximately 4,600 acres of land on the Athi plains, which he named Doonholm (later commonly spelled Donholm) after a property or landscape feature associated with his Scottish home in Ayrshire. The vast farm stretched from the area near present-day City Stadium eastward toward what is now Jomo Kenyatta International Airport.
Watson developed it into a major dairy operation, becoming one of Nairobiโs earliest regular milk suppliers.The water tower formed part of the farmโs essential infrastructure. Watson also pioneered agricultural improvements on the property, including the first cattle dip in Kenya (around 1910) to combat East Coast Fever and the introduction of Ayrshire cattle breeds from Scotland.
To transport milk into Nairobi, he built a murram road through his farm that became todayโs Jogoo Road. Watson was additionally an accomplished architect and contractor who contributed to several early Nairobi buildings and infrastructure projects.
Over the decades, most of the original Doonholm farm was subdivided. Parts were acquired by the government in the 1950s for Embakasi Airport development. The area evolved into the residential and commercial Donholm Estate, one of Nairobiโs oldest Eastlands neighbourhoods.
The water tower has survived as a tangible reminder of Watsonโs pioneering role in the regionโs early development and continues to stand as a recognizable colonial-era landmark.