4 years into the Kenya Kwanza government and we can't even recognize our country anymore. Nothing works! Education, health, transport, farming, environment, security, international relations, sports. Absolutely nothing!! Fuck the government!! Fuck rigathi, fuck Ruto, fuck kindiki
🧵 Nairobi has normalized dysfunction so deeply that we now celebrate roads simply because they exist, not because they are safe.
Driving through parts of the city in the rain felt less like commuting and more like surviving an obstacle course.
Waiyaki Way. Uhuru Highway. Enterprise Rd. Lunga Lunga. Jogoo Rd. Outering. Thika Road. Northern Bypass.
Pitch black.
No lane markings.
No reflective paint.
No warning signs.
Barely any lighting.
At some points, you genuinely cannot tell where your lane begins or ends.
And yet this is a city where every litre of fuel is taxed heavily in the name of road maintenance.
So where is the money going?
Because it is clearly not going into safer roads.
Some roundabouts along Uhuru Highway are almost invisible at night when it rains. You only notice them when you are already on top of them.
The speed bumps around Northern Bypass and parts of Nairobi are another problem entirely.
Poorly marked.
Poorly designed.
Dangerous spacing.
Not traffic calming.
Just vehicle damage waiting to happen.
What makes this worse is that these are not remote roads.
These are major roads used daily by thousands of ordinary Kenyans going to work, running businesses, or simply trying to get home alive.
Road safety is not a luxury item for developed countries.
Reflective paint is not a miracle technology.
Street lighting is not an impossible engineering challenge.
This is simply what happens when institutions stop caring because accountability disappeared long ago.
Road deaths are not always “accidents.”
Sometimes they are accumulated negligence.
And negligence, when repeated for years, becomes policy.
@Nyambuscov_ Do we use the same statistics for why men disappear and refuse to raise children? Burial of your parents same day is cruelty of the highest order