Row over Nairobi skyscrapers | Residents Associations reject removal of height restrictions
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- Опубліковано 26 бер 2024
- 26 professional and residents’ associations in Nairobi County have expressed objection to a proposal by Nairobi Governor Johnson Sakaja to allow construction of high-rise buildings in different parts of the city. The associations have threatened to seek legal redress if the county fails to suspend the plan to allow for the construction of high-rise buildings in areas like Kilimani and Kileleshwa. Governor Sakaja has defended the proposal saying the population is growing and there is demand for housing.
Gvt should just open up other towns why should Nairobi have 10 m dwellers if we have other cities opened up
Exactly, why should people come from other 46 counties to Nairobi?
Because there's a global plan to push the world's populations into mega cities and 15-minute cities for purposes of control and monitoring peoples' movements. Look into 15-minute cities and how SMART technology will be used to box people in like zoo animals. In the meantime, people will gradually be pushed out of the rural areas. As I said, this is a global plan (UN Sustainable Development Plan) and what they have been doing over the years is installing puppet presidents like Ruto and puppet governors/mayors/town councilors like Sakaja to oversee their plans. Why do you think Ruto has insisted on taxing everyone to build his 'affordable' houses?
From what I see here in Nairobi and in some American cities, they want to build many apartment blocks and then trigger some false flag event that will grant them the permission to move the masses into those already-built blocks.
Konza, Tatu and the upcoming Nairobi Railways City are being built as 15-minute cities.
Also look into the 30 x 30 forestation plan. Its under the same umbrella of grabbing rural land from indigenous people and stashing them into 15-minute cities.
Also think about the fact that the UN Population Fund is making a big move to Nairobi. If you know anything about the UN, you know that its a globalist organization that was set up to gradually overtake the sovereignty of nations and heard all countries into a one-world-system of governance. Ask yourself.. what's the connection between this push to densify Nairobi and the UNFPA relocating a chunk of its NYC employees to Gigiri? Begin connecting the dots.
Nairobi is for everyone
The trend is upwards too in Nairobi outskirts.
Just build Railways man. Open up Kajiado, Kiambu and Machakos.
Yes, excluding Kiambu.
Yeah,they should open up satellite towns
Thika
We're talking about Nairobi, not Kiambu and all those.
Agricultural land red soil can't hold skyscrapers that's why they have been collapsing it's the court to stop immigrants from comiygo Nairobi let them stay in their countries
I'm not surprised he said Runda Muthaiga and Karen will remain the same because thats where people like him live and they will not allow it.
I don't think he lives in those areas....at least is not a long resident
Exactly
He lives in Riverside, lavington
Worst decision ever. SAKAJA HAS NO CLass. There is plenty of land in Nairobi why concentrate it in one area?
Since when did Abaluhya have brains? Including health CS & Nairobi governor😮😮😢😢?????
The Chinese and Somalis are the ones in charge
@@morgantall1852 kuma hii
@@animalpalace_ke Wewe ni mluyha ndio imekuguza sana, ukweli inauma!
@@morgantall1852 You're forgetting Ababu Namwamba. Human with no brains
THe dimples guy has already taken bribes from the developers. He needs to be sued individually and not as a county government
Exactly 💯
I case you didn't know... HE'S USELESS
Exactly!
😂😂😂 he is simply saying you are free to build as high as you can as long as it's not where I live.
Simply send Sakaja home.
Why more skyscrapers without schools, health centers, parks and play grounds for children and parents recreation? . Who benefits, the communities or developers? 🤔. When will we ever learn that it's about the quality of life in the environment that creates good humble citizens. Compare Singapore that is kept mentioned over and over🙄
Wewe ju hujajenga hizo skyscraper, unejenga shule ??
acha wajenge...hakuna sonko ataishi kwa hizo nyumba, due to congestion, crimes, prostitution, traffic jam, car jackings, drugs and poor planning zitakosa the tenants they are targeting so watashukisha bei then watu watatoka pipeline waende huko alafu matajiri as usual will move elsewhere and build their estates huko probably in Kajiado
@@ekm4881 That's why we must ask ourselves, is our greed and ignorance going to ruin our city making us a laughing stock to the outside world. Westerners watch the way we use our political freedom and just shake heads. Let's hope the law will help 🙄🙄.
Big up the associations! And the people who formed them!
As long as it doesn’t affect his gated community he doesn’t care.
There's more to this mushrooming of highrise houses than is being said....our Governor, please consider Nairobi 100 years from now. Will we need all these houses....?! We have Mombasa, Kisumu, Nakuru cities as well
Sakaja utaenda nyumbani unaaribu Nairobi iwe Kijiji kama India
The confused sakaja is not a professional and that's why he will never see sense in what this group is saying.very unfortunate for our children and future investors
He grew up in ngara estate I believe. Expand and develop other cities. Not just Nairobi
The ramblings of a madman
What if the earth quake happens after the highrise buildings have been built, what do you think will happen?
This is what happens if you elect an IDIOT who has never gone to school and put him in charge of running a big city. He just speaks from his Azzz and doesnt consider the effect of his useless decisions on the future. Sakaja forged his academic papers, is a quack, will never be a planner and is undeducated. You might as well put a monkey to run this city that this Sakaja Clown
@@humblemureithiwhy is that not an issue in the rest of the world like china Dubai Singapore
@@Bk1917 Because it is planned with all risks taken into considerations. Sakaja's pronouncements are road side declarations. Nairobi si ya mama ya mtu.
sky scrappers for Airbnb's and foreigners. Chinese, Pakistanis, Lebanese, Turks, Nigerians and so on. Locals priced out and original suburbs destroyed. Come up with a masterplan together with national government, draw up a metro rail system to connect Nairobi to the Metro areas outside it. A 10 million people city without modern rail system? Or the kickbacks for approving these buildings is so sweet to throw your city under the bus. Sadly, these buildings are not designed for earthquake, are you aware of that Sakaja? Kenya has no seismic code, no national annexes for earthquake design of tall buildings.
Valid points. It would be a calamity if an earthquake occurred. We need to plan & design our buildings better.
And the idea that 2050 will have a major population hike is fallacy. So this Sir. Kaja is not behaving like a governor but as a salesman selling the city to high bidders who wanna build anything and anyhow.
Nairobi has a master plan
That's called capitalism.....
@@josephokello5693 Sakaja has scrapped it and he is now talking on the basis of a Sakaja plan that he arrived at after asking Ruto! Sheer madness.
Nairobi river iko hapo kando inawacheki tu ... Govt plans on development na maji ni machafu mjini, fix the small things that matter
When they can’t control floods already kuna jam now where will these population go.
The mess and madness that we have seen in pipeline area cannot be allowed anywhere in any neighborhood in the world to happen but only in a dysfunctional city and country like kenya
The government should be saying they have already upgraded requisite infrastructure to support the new developments. This thing of tumetenga tumepanga tuna mikakati is just disheartening and brings the impression that there is no solid infrastructure upgrade in the offing. This man has kind of spread this thing of promises with no intent and action to the governors too or what?
Sakaja needs to fix the problems that are there now that he hasn't fixed in the first place. He's talking about fixing new drainage and sewer systems yet currently what is there now is a disaster. Fix Nairobi as it is first then propose new things.
Mr Ruto. Endelea na kazi ❤❤❤
Ni ndo ujinga ya kuelect mtu ju ya dimples 😂😂😂😂.
Tutajijengea barabara ya kwenda shags we will be sleeping shags as we work in Nairobi
Dimple economics Bureau Kabisa ata sonko was better
This is what happens if you elect an IDIOT who has never gone to school and put him in charge of running a big city. He just speaks from his Azzz and doesnt consider the effect of his useless decisions on the future. Sakaja forged his academic papers, is a quack, will never be a planner and is undeducated. You might as well put a monkey to run this city that this Sakaja Clown
The governor should engage and make references to Nrb master plan instead of talking with finality to some only known to himself. At the moment he has to deal with water, electricity outages, road/rail connectivity,drainage system and involve wanachi and professionals
Pesa ya china wa walalo imepea governor kiburi.....
🥴
The Love Of Money Is The Root Of All Evil.....
Thats what the good book Says.
Those who don't want high-rise buildings should shift to Nakuru or back to their village
It is not a question of wanting or not wanting high rise buildings. The question is about maintaining order while developing the city by planning the developments then developing the plans.
@@georgeodhiambo598 there's a saying that "progress is impossible without change" ....change is a must no matter if you complain, cry or whatever what you should do is adapt to change
@@stevestephen2122 There is positive change and negative change. Not every change represents change for the better. To destroy a green and luscious estate for dark poorly lit, poorly ventilated congested concrete block whose design defies even the building code and City bye-laws is sheer madness. Even running mad is a case of change. Never celebrate such a change unless you too, have ran mad.
@@georgeodhiambo598... that's why I said even if you complain, cry or you go mad you won't stop it ...hii yenu ni kama kunyamba kwa punda
@@stevestephen2122 Have you reached the end of your thinking capacity? Didnt you proclaim the inevitability of change as if change comes from outside existence? Change is the outcome of an interplay of forces from within existence. Some of the forces that shape change are your own response to them. You can't just idly sit by, while accepting events around you without any input from yourself to impact on that change. Through your effort, you can initiate change, you can support change , you can suppress it or enhance it. But don't sit there like a dodo waiting to swing to whatever direction something external to yourself, called change takes. You will go into extinction if you try that path, just like the dodo.
I have a problem with long run maintenance.
Building tall doesn't mean building bad. Sakaja is on the right here. Its a shame to see the leadership of the Architectural Association of Kenya supporting these 'Not in my backyard' mentality
Wacha watu wajenge. Ata mimi nataka kuhamia gorofa westlands. Nimechoka kuishi gheto.
Sadly wewe kuishi ghetto is not due to lack of buildings in Westalands.
@@clifftonnjoroge9301 With your mentality you will just carry the ghettos in your mind as you crossover to Westlands, then turn Westlands too into another slum. It is what runs through your mind that sets the pace for your environment. Change your mindset and all else will follow.
You can remove the ghetto from the n*gga but not the n*gga from the ghetto, wewe ata upelekwe majuu utafikiria tu kama mtu wa ghetto
The high and mighty do not want an ordinary mwananchi near them. They just want large their own imagined compounds. Let the buildings be constructed. Kenya is for all of us.
What do you want near them? Cheza kwako. Urban planning does not create socio- economic strata. It recognizes theur existence and plans for them
@@georgeodhiambo598 I've been reading your comments and you have a very sound mind. There are so many intersecting issues going on with this high rises problem.
As you can see from the comment above (the OP), this thing is turning into class warfare. In fact I won't be surprised if very soon, UDA politicians start chanting their 'hustler' narrative, ati let hustlers have access to those neighbourhoods.
Wasee wa ghetto want 'inclusivity' in the (formerly) nice/leafy areas that they currently do not have access to and they see these high rises as their way in, and then you have a section of unexposed Kenyans who think that development means tall concrete monstrosities everywhere without realizing that there's such a thing as urban planning. These folks don't understand that Kileleshwa and Kilimani *were not designed to accommodate all these high rises in the first place*, so Sakaja can't just wake up and decide that the matter is as simple as 'improving' the water and sewerage systems, whatever he means by that.
The problem with these types of Kenyans is that they don't understand quantity vs. quality. To them, a bunch of tall blocks squeezed together is development so long as they have decent interior finishes and are built in a 'nice' part of town.
If you listen to the youtuber called Francis Gaitho, he talks about what he calls the ''villagization of Nairobi'' where the standards in the city are being brought down by the influx of rural folk who don't understand quality control. So between these upcountry-minded folks and a thoroughly corrupt NCA, we get what we now have in Nai.
Nairobi and the rest of Kenya should be led by a group of educated, well-exposed and well-intentioned nationalistic people. Instead, we have a bunch of self-serving idiots in those positions.
Anyway, the bigger issue here is that there's a sinister global plan to herd the masses off rural land and into apartments in tightly controlled zones called 15-minute cities, and this is also why Ruto is pushing his 'affordable' housing nonsense on the other end. Think about the fact that Sakaja is not pushing these high rises in Runda, Muthaiga and Karen... because that's where wazungu and other protected classes live. The concrete boxes a.k.a apartments are for the commoners while hao wengine get to enjoy their 5 acre lawns. Its going to be very interesting to see how this issue turns out.
The people complaining are landlords who own old colonial building and charge an arm and a leg for rent in the said regions.
I support sakaja on this.
New York is full of tall highrise builds, what examples are they giving?
Expand to others peripheral of Nairobi. Hiyo yako Governor ni corruption appetite tu
kwani kileleshwa na kilimani ni mbinguni ,,,,, awa watu waache maringo
Incompetence galore
This is what happens if you elect an IDIOT who has never gone to school and put him in charge of running a big city. He just speaks from his Azzz and doesnt consider the effect of his useless decisions on the future. Sakaja forged his academic papers, is a quack, will never be a planner and is undeducated. You might as well put a monkey to run this city that this Sakaja Clown
Nairobi is growing that is the only solution.
Naaah we should expand to machakos and kajiado
Growth of Nairobi is not a Sakaja era thing. It has always grown and will always grow. Sakaja is just unique in the manner he lacks class. He is destroying Nairobi in the name of growth.
@@kingsurul844 then spend hours in traffic traveling from one corner of the city to the other.
Highrise buildings are designed to have a compact city where most services can be accessed without traveling for hours.
I support sakaja.
Opening up the building restrictions will actually attract more private investments into Nairobi and that's how a city grows.
@@georgeodhiambo598 by your reasoning cities like NY and London must be slums by now...
@@wakawaka5131 these are wajuaji who have never been anywhere outside their villages.
Nairobi cannot even be compared with jo'bug or Cape Town or Cairo which are African cities with far much urban development.
Sakaja shouldn't listen to these chronic lethargic complaining machines.
Hon Sakaja Uko sawa. Wadosi wajue time has come.
It's not a rich vs poor thing it's about laws vs lawlessness. think
Banana planning. Cities building this type of infrastructure have supporting systems, like sewer, water, electricity, transportation, and recreation already accounted for. Nairobi doesn't even have proper lighting, sidewalks and bike ways where you can still move around comfortably in any weather.
Why do we gets it wrong on Nairobis GVN management with likes of people like sakaja? Failures from the start.
These are selfish individuals who think that they should live exclusively and not indulge with other kenyans . Let them move to where they think they will not have neighbors. The population is growing and we must come to terms with reality.
How can you be worried about the problems of 2050, which you are not sure of, yet you have failed to address the problems of 2024 that you can see in full glare? This should be a lesson for people to vote for brains, not dimples!!!
A lot of requirements and consideration by experts and professional engineers and geologists and safety experts must plan carefully on.
Site Assessment & Alignment with Regulations...
Structural Integrity. ...
Mechanical, Electrical & Plumbing (MEP) ...
Energy Efficiency...
Sustainability & Green Friendliness...
Occupant Comfort...
Aesthetic Appeal.
Emergence and risk management
Nairobi is changing, we are growing in numbers, space is limited.
When kick backs is so much...mr dimples doesn't care even if they paper bags structures😂😂
It is not advisable to build multiple storeys without improving on sewage roads water etc instead allowing people easily transport from outlying areas of Nairobi railway reducing congestion etc
Nairobi should expand outwards on dwelling. Not conjesting the already conjested city. These 70 floors, how will they operate without electricity. Sometime we have to be seriuos as a government with our laid down plans.
Ok am saying this i agree with the construction of high rise building but then other basic factors should be considered like transport within the city
Support development of other cities and towns in a planned and organised manner to avoid the Nairobi chaos.
Just open other cities
Our enemies are amongst us, please Kenyans what is wrong.
Please let's built our country, why are you complaining.
😂😂 building country is not Buildings, stop reasoning like a layman 😢
@@MotivationNation4Usare you or him a professional in this matter
@@stevestephen2122Are you?
Sluminization of a city is not development. Development is a much bigger subject than just concrete blocks. Sound living takes a lot more than that.
Those are elite and rich who are against to be build
Stop being shallow in your reasoning. The people building those poorly planned, poorly designed, poorly ventilated, underserved concrete blocks are not elite and rich. Such people cannot be in opposition to the messy developments they are putting up in Kilimani
He wants those rich families to go upcountry like in the USA.
Na the city morgue doesn't have power ujinga Haina dawa.
The ignorance in some of the comments
Nairobi should be a business hub houses for rent should be built in kiambu, Nakuru,kajiado, Nairobi should be less populated
Not in kiambu,waste of agricultural potential
Not kiambu we can't accommodate highrise ghettos in our place
@KIM-xl6zs I'm just saying people living in Nairobi should head back to their homes and get houses there Nairobi is overcrowded
@@alexnjenga8184 ni sawa but in kiambu we don't want to subdivide our lands anymore, we don't even subdivide our coffee and tea estates
@@KIM-xl6zs kiambu ni kubwa
People want price of food to reduce yet they're wasting land meant for agriculture by constructing things horizontally instead of vertically
This signals incompetence on the part of government.
Utaenda nyumbani boss
It’s good…the city is growing…. Mnataka mtaa za umo mpaka lini?
Kwani did Nairobi only start growing after Sakaja became the Governor? Nairobi has always been growing from early 1900's. The issue under discussion mushrooming of poorly planned and poorly designed high rise flats akin sluminization of formerly leafy and quiet neighbourhoods.
Nairobi is an international city and it should compete with others globally these kinds of skyscrapers will make the city disorderly and it will be so stressful for the future generations. We need to grow other 46 counties that’s why we chose devolution 😊
Halleluyah!
NO WAY!
Enemies of progress have none of those people been to New York City? Tembea living in one country is like reading one chapter of a book
Don't compare a pit latrine with New York
We need sewer, electricity,water infrastructure to correspond to the development and that is not happening or hasn't happened, plus NY the only place I can call good enough is Manhattan, parts of Brooklyn and Hamptons the rest are sh*t, plus have you seen the crime rates in NY, NY is a sh*tty place to compare with
Sakaja has absolutely no idea as to why he was elected there's too much land must you demolish houses to put up new buildings expand Nairobi to machakos out skirts where alot of bare land with nothing on them buy it from the respective owners why is this so difficult.
Just build the underlying infrastructure and have it stable and leave everything else
Stupid idea why not expand Nairobi. Especially toward the south to Lukenya Athiriver. Toward konza. Also moving some institutions from Nairobi like Eastleigh air strip. Industrial area prison etc
Go expand the satelites . When you elect a fool dont expect smart decision or urban planing. This should be resisted kabisa.
Awa hawataki kuishi na watu. SELFISH😂.
These buildings won't stop coming my friends. Kwani how do you think these senior Governor officials like Sakaja invest before they retire? Unadhani they will let things like poor drainage or insufficient water supply ruin the 10+ skycrapers each of them want to build so that they can still make heaps of money even when they retire or loss their positions? Hapa hamuwezi do any my friends. There's too many people in power who benefit a lot from this. Kubali tu.
Look at the Chinese real estate collapse. Ghost cities, buildings, skyscrapers everywhere. Kenya is headed the same route.
2:33 what a clown. He doesn't even understand the purpose of devolution...
hio meli ilisha ng'oa nanga
Change is inevitable
There is positive change and negative change. It is everyone's responsibility to harness positive change while suppressing negative change. To watch passively changes that take place around you is what drive the dodo to extinction. Resist and suppress negative changes. Converting green leafy suburbs into unhealthy poorly planned, poorly ventilated poorly lit high rise apartments is negative change. Even the way they are designed and constructed defies Kenya's building code and breaches city by-laws. That's negative change.
Sakaja the Sell out for sure
We have scarce land in Kenya, therefore sky should be the limit
Paris is way older than Nairobi but you won't find such mess...
Riyadh is far wealthier and large than Nairobi...but you can count a few skyscrapers....
Whats the obsession with having high rise buildings than good living conditions
You ask as governor what we are we going to due about housing coz of rising population in city ??? This is interesting😂
Wrong priorities, houses to benefit you but people need jobs and these require industrialization, promotion of agribusiness and training youths in creating jobs. Revive Kenya industrial research development and do sensitisation. Let's make our young people competitive globally , they have brains but lack support.
Which youths will live in those houses on empty stomachs and are they being offered freely or they are targeted to middle class ? And who said "kazi ya mijengo" is the only work our youths are capable of doing ??😮😮
huyu gavana anajionanga kama intellectual but niko sure IQ yake iko below 35. hiyo milungula anakula ndio end of thinking capacity, Nairobi being super congested needs to be expanded that's how towns like kitengela, rongai, kiambu, thika, ruaka etc emerged. Even in the US towns are expanded through urban planning that's why everything is bigger including houses and towns and there is no congestion. Even kibaki was way ahead of his time because he thought of building a new city Tatu city with proper planning instead of congesting Nairobi. huyo mjinga anaitwa sakaja akifinyilia watu imagine the traffic jam? alafu playgrounds, hospitals, RC facilities, parks etc zitakua wapi?
enyewe jamaa hajasoma. u cant have sky scrapers in residential areas
The only space that is remain for construction is in the air, change is inevitable, there is not enough land, people should get it. And sakaja is right
That's not true. Most slums are sitting on public land with informal, inhabitable structures. Acres and acres of land. That's where high rise buildings should start. In effect, you would be replacing eyesores with superior high rise buildings. To replace quiet and leafy neighbourhoods living in peace and serenity with poorly planned, poorly ventilated, poorly lit concrete structure is just a case of degeneration and continuation of urban rot.
So this people think Eastlands is where this should happen and you will find on Sunday they attend churches, our only permanent home is Heaven, here weather you are in kileleshwa one day you will own 5 by 10 feet grave and be forgotten, be humble we are all dust
Ashakula pesa uyo
Nairobi jameni, mnadanganywa some areas will not be affected. aje?? things like Garbage, Sewer systems, water ,power, health ,education, jails, emergency services, parks, cemetries, roads and transport, will all be affected. Nairobi is afew mistakes away from being inhabbitable, its sad that politicians only see demand as money inform of taxes ,where is the planning?? where is the delivery of social ammenities?? are they chewing more than they can swallow?
Runda Muthaiga and Karen are not part of the plans because of the high and mighty. Embassies and their residences are also there. The most responsible way of doing things is first build the infrastructure before lifting the restrictions. This thing of "plans are underway", we know it too well.
Sakaja is a fuuul
Invest in other areas not only in Nairobi
One Term LOADING hope Wasonali watakupaTheur votes kama wakonazo 😂😂😂
Inner cities are left for poor people the world over. Rich people always migrate to leafy suburbs... You can't save Kilimani and Kileleshwa from high-rises.
Sakaja and people like him must be called out so as to stop him from continuing with his march towards sluminizing Nairobi in the name of development. Sakaja lacks class and he won't stop with Kilimani and Kileleshwa unless these corrupt bureaucrats like Sakaja are loudly called out. Residents associations and professionals must step in and name and shame Sakaja.
The only way a city that gets more people moving in everyday can accomodate them is up. That is the reality.
People are leaving the village to live in Kilimani? 😂😂😂
But they can do that to and in the slummish estates they have created elsewhere. Look at Buru Buru which was one of the nearest estates in the seventies to eighties. It was quickly converted into a slum through slummish mentality of its dwellers. Having converted their residential areas into slums, Sakaja is now facilitating for sluminization of Kilimani and Kileleshwa too! This represents negative change.
If they allow this,some land owners will only see darkness 😂😂😂
If they have the funds to fix sewerage and water, they should get on with it and let the high rise buildings be built. A growing middle class is a good sign. Change is inevitable. Painful but inevitable. However, let's leave some green spaces please.
Anyway the sky is the limit😂😂🤣🤣Nî inyuî mwî kûu
They are working on sewage thing ..water etc what the issue now? .....u like it or not nrxt china Singapore highrise is here to stay...mrudi shags
The underpopulated Nairobi is a thing of the past.... we need to move forward. Those living in Kileleshwa, Kilimani and Lavington should get used to these developments. They are here to stay.
@@angelanderito6482 It is because that land is riparian land and cannot withstand any strong foundation. You understand that there are laws that govern the Building and Construction industry and I would challenge you to do your research on such.
Singapore plan then build….Kenya build then plan. Kilimani without a plan will just endup like pipeline.
"Tall pipeline”
Are you seriously comparing Singapore to Nairobi. We lost that race a long time ago .. like in the 80s! Singapore understands the concept of planning a city that includes high- level infrastructure and the importance of recreational green spaces. We meanwhile make blanket statements about showing our lack of vision. Is there not a Greater Nairobi that could be made accessible by focusing on reliable and efficient public transport? How do you have a city of 10M and think the only way to expand is vertical?
I support that, mtu akiskia Nairobi imemchosha na kelele enda kwenu ushago
Kenya kuna sheria😂😂😂😂😂
UDA are after their stomach!
They are out to eat using their thorax, arm and mindful of their pocket without using engaging brain and in disregard of professional advice whatsoever!
Most of people hating on kilimani are broke.cant even afford such a unit
The ONLY constant in life is Change
There is positive change and negative change. It is the cardinal duty of reasonable men a and women to initiate and direct change. Enhance positive change while suppressing negative change. Changes of the kind Sakaja is pushing for represent degeneration. Even the degeneration that saw Pipeline estate come into being is change but it is negative change. Even the "madness" of change running through Sakaja's mind is still change but it is NEGATIVE change that is leading to urban rot, just like Pipeline estate. Not every change represents positive change.
Sakaja is restoring sanity and order to Nairobi and people of Nairobi
This governor thinks very shallow. Is that even a question that where are they going to live? That’s why you open other nearby towns. There’s no point of Nairobi getting overpopulated when the nearby towns are near empty. Move offfices, businesses, hospitals and universities to outside the city. People will move there. Can’t you learn a thing or two from western world? A place like America, the capital of a state is not the biggest city in that state. For instance, Chicago is the third largest city in America, yet it doesn’t even qualify to be a state capital. It don’t have offices or amenities to govern the state coz all those amenities are reclassified in smaller cities in that state. This stops people to overpopulate Chicago. Same with New York City. Though it’s among the biggest cities in the whole of America, the smaller city Albany is the capital of the whole New York State. Learn something guys! There’s no reason Nairobi is the capital city of Kenya. Let Nakuru or Machakos be and you’ll see how fast those Cities develop, expand, and populate.
WORSE IN MOMBASA. NEMA MUST BE DISBANDED. PUT EXPATS FROM SINGAPORE.
I am not convinced Sakaja has his priorities right, judging by the current state with mounds of dirt still on the side of roads, open sewers, trash, leaning streetlights, and missing road furniture. Let him fix the current mess in westlands and kilimani first.
He thinks it's just a matter of expanding sewage systems, water, and power but what about livability? What about the road network, which is not expandable in places like Kilimani? How will it handle the traffic? Imagine building taller buildings than the CBD with single lanes in each direction and no provisions for buses, bicycles, and pedestrian walkways.
I'm beginning to believe he's corrupt. He sounds like someone who would bend the rules when he;s offered big money, considering his inability to enforce current building regulations, which, I agree with the residents' association, has greatly lowered the quality of life in the once upmarket surburbs.
What I don't agree with the resident associations is them trying to hold onto their dear old quiet neighborhoods. Just accept Kilimani, by virtue of being too close to a big city, has succumbed to natural urban sprawl, accepting it, hii imeenda, it's too late.
Let's go up as sakaja says, if you feel uncomfortable you move out of Nairobi... Sakaja is the Nairobi governor not Kajiados or kiambus so he can't talk of opening up other counties.