Last year, the US government said some African governments refused to participate in its forced deportation programme for illegal migrants. Ghana volunteered to collect them and help dump them.
In 2022, the British government decided it no longer wished to host asylum seekers on its own territory and needed somewhere to offload them. Rwanda raised its hand.
In 2016, the United States decided it could not keep certain Guantanamo Bay prisoners in its own facilities. Ghana openly agreed to receive them on African soil.
And now the United States has decided it cannot repatriate its own Ebola patients to its own vastly superior medical infrastructure. Kenya has offered to build them a treatment centre.
Every time a Western government identifies something it considers too dangerous, too embarrassing, too legally complicated or too politically inconvenient to keep on its own territory, there is always an African government somewhere ready to collect it.
Deportees, asylum seekers, terror suspects, infectious disease patients. The willingness of certain African leaders to position their countries as the world’s surrogate waste management service, in exchange for whatever diplomatic or financial token has no visible floor.
There will always be morally bankrupt opportunists in government who will not look at the safety of their people, the dignity of their flag or the solidarity owed to the oppressed, and will instead compete to be the most useful to the powerful.
“Development” should never come at the expense of Kenya’s forests, a source of clean water, livelihoods and the survival of endangered species. Sign the petition >> https://t.co/mlQ5V7XXIQ
@KenyaPower_Care We have had a power outage since 12.00pm, reported severally through the chat bot, the only thing I have is a ref number 14632632. The issue hasn't been resolved
@KenyaPower_Care There's been a power outage the last couple of days at Gatimu village, Kirangi. The reference number for the official complaint is attached below.
This evening, I had an unpleasant encounter with a certain mama in Kahawa.
She owns a shop opposite Cleanshelf Supermarket. At around 9 p.m., as she was closing the shop, she stepped outside and threw a yoghurt container onto the ground.
I called her out and confronted her, asking why she had done so. She responded, “I’ve thrown it outside my shop.”
I was angered by her response and tried to get her to pick it up and dispose of it in a nearby dustbin. She ignored me and went ahead to close the shop without doing so.
Since then, hundreds of questions have been running through my mind — don’t we Kenyans use common sense?
@KenyaPower_Care There has been a power outage at the account below (Gatimu village in Kirangi), and we can't report because there's an unresolved complaint.
@KenyaPower_Care There's been a power outage the whole day at Gatimu village, Kirangi. The reference number for the official complaint is attached below.
@KenyaPower_Care There's been a power outage the whole day at Gatimu village, Kirangi. The reference number for the official complaint is attached below.