the phrase "lipstick on a pig" has always inspired a deep sadness in me. I think of the pig, looking forward to her big night out, and I bring myself to the verge of tears.
The Maungu lorry park in Taita Taveta was built at a cost of over Sh320 million. It has 182-lorry capacity, 70 guest rooms, and 24 stalls. It sits on the busiest highway in East Africa, the Nairobi-Mombasa corridor, a lifeline for Kenya's entire import and export economy. It currently generates Sh8,000 a day. Sh8,000. On a Sh320 million facility. Built with public money.
The park has no reliable water supply, no electricity, no designated parking for trucks carrying dangerous goods, and no basic firefighting equipment. Meanwhile, trucks park along the highway the very problem the facility was built to solve.
This is not a management failure. It is a governance failure. Someone approved Sh320 million. Someone commissioned it. Someone handed it to private operators. And someone has been watching it rot since 2015.
Who? And will anyone answer for it?
Tourism in Laikipia has been affected after hotels reported cancellations linked to fears over a proposed Ebola quarantine facility in the area.
The county says it was not consulted on the project, which is now the subject of a court case.
Tensions flared in Nanyuki as police opened fire during ongoing protests against a proposed U.S. Ebola quarantine facility, leaving one demonstrator dead.
African Client denied school children meals, raided payslips of citizens to spend kshs 17 Billion to renovate State House.
Now he spends 80% of his time in his one of his recently acquired private jets, only stopping by once in a while in the country to launch a tap.
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