Mwalimu you are a philosopher. Do not be part of those formenting misplaced outrage. This argument collapses the moment one examine your assumptions.
First, nobody is proposing to fly Ebola patients from America into Kenya. The facility is intended for American researchers, aid workers, and response personnel already operating in or near the outbreak zone in eastern DRC. That distinction matters. A quarantine facility near the region of exposure is not the same thing as importing disease from another continent.
Second, if the objective is to support personnel working in a conflict-affected outbreak zone, then proximity matters. Evacuating a potentially exposed person 12,000 kilometres across oceans is not automatically safer or more practical than isolating them in a secure facility within the region.
Third, the sovereignty argument is confused. Sovereignty means Kenya decides whether to host such a facility, under what conditions, and with what safeguards. It does not mean rejecting every international partnership simply because a foreign country is involved.
Fourth, critics keep asking what America gains but rarely ask what Kenya gains. Funding, training, surveillance systems, equipment, preparedness, and institutional experience do not disappear when the outbreak ends. Given Kenya's porous borders and regional connections, those capabilities directly benefit Kenyans.
Criticise secrecy. Demand transparency. Question the safeguards. Those are legitimate concerns.
But replacing analysis with slogans about colonialism does not strengthen Kenya. It merely substitutes outrage for thinking.
@methumuhia Ati hawa ndio wa kutoa rais kwa ofisi๐คฃ๐คฃ๐คฃ imagine ati hawa ndio ati wanataka kukomboa nchi๐คฃ๐คฃ๐คฃ Ile ujinga iko hii Kenya ๐คฃ๐คฃ๐คฃ