Comments on: Kenya’s most costly animal: the White Elephant http://www.sunwords.com/2009/09/27/kenyas-most-costly-animal-the-white-elephant/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 08:24:23 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 By: Dickie Rehal http://www.sunwords.com/2009/09/27/kenyas-most-costly-animal-the-white-elephant/comment-page-1/#comment-41687 Dickie Rehal Thu, 01 Oct 2009 03:18:17 +0000 http://www.sunwords.com/?p=742#comment-41687 Dear Sunny, I recall some time back in the not to distant past the First Lady raised a storm over frogs swimming in the facilities at Kasarani Stadium due to lack of use or misuse. My question is, why is nobody doing anything to ensure its sustained use even in the current regime? All it needs is infrastructure support, especially transport, to increase access and programs to increase use. Its a sorry eye sore I say and we have Prof Sambili ranting about maintaining legacies of the past. Tch tch! Dear Sunny,
I recall some time back in the not to distant past the First Lady raised a storm over frogs swimming in the facilities at Kasarani Stadium due to lack of use or misuse. My question is, why is nobody doing anything to ensure its sustained use even in the current regime? All it needs is infrastructure support, especially transport, to increase access and programs to increase use. Its a sorry eye sore I say and we have Prof Sambili ranting about maintaining legacies of the past. Tch tch!

]]> By: Sunny Bindra http://www.sunwords.com/2009/09/27/kenyas-most-costly-animal-the-white-elephant/comment-page-1/#comment-41497 Sunny Bindra Sun, 27 Sep 2009 15:59:45 +0000 http://www.sunwords.com/?p=742#comment-41497 OK: The problem is indeed in the national ethos. We accept way too much misuse of our money. We expect nothing, demand nothing, and get nothing. Except White Elephants... OK:

The problem is indeed in the national ethos. We accept way too much misuse of our money. We expect nothing, demand nothing, and get nothing.

Except White Elephants…

]]> By: Our Kid http://www.sunwords.com/2009/09/27/kenyas-most-costly-animal-the-white-elephant/comment-page-1/#comment-41475 Our Kid Sun, 27 Sep 2009 07:07:05 +0000 http://www.sunwords.com/?p=742#comment-41475 You are right on the money with this one Sunny. We have creeped into a nation that allows everything to go to waste and its all because there is no follow up of any developments that are made. I have been to that Traffic Park and your description of events is exactly what happened to me. The rots goes on everywhere. The City Council put up some public toilets only to let them go to waste. Now they have 'leased' them out to people who then charge you a fee to use them forgetting that you actually pay rates and other silly payments such as the garbage collection fee for garbage they never collect. In some cities, you get into public toilets without paying since they are manned by Municipal employees. There are also the Police Booths that were commissioned with much fan fare. You can imagine what happens there. Kenya still requires a rethinking of its national ethos. It is the only way that we can then ask questions and DEMAND that those to whom we make contributions to (albeit not feeling sufficiently philanthropic but at coercion) can EXPLAIN what they are using our money for and continue to show that whatever they set up will be maintained. Some people even joke that the word MAINTENANCE does not exist in our various local dialects. I think we are so used to bad leadership, be it in our small communities in the estates, to our schools, to our city council, to our work places.... until we think bad leadership is normal. PS. God forbid they dig up that beautiful facility. You are right on the money with this one Sunny.

We have creeped into a nation that allows everything to go to waste and its all because there is no follow up of any developments that are made. I have been to that Traffic Park and your description of events is exactly what happened to me.

The rots goes on everywhere. The City Council put up some public toilets only to let them go to waste. Now they have ‘leased’ them out to people who then charge you a fee to use them forgetting that you actually pay rates and other silly payments such as the garbage collection fee for garbage they never collect. In some cities, you get into public toilets without paying since they are manned by Municipal employees.

There are also the Police Booths that were commissioned with much fan fare. You can imagine what happens there.

Kenya still requires a rethinking of its national ethos. It is the only way that we can then ask questions and DEMAND that those to whom we make contributions to (albeit not feeling sufficiently philanthropic but at coercion) can EXPLAIN what they are using our money for and continue to show that whatever they set up will be maintained.

Some people even joke that the word MAINTENANCE does not exist in our various local dialects.

I think we are so used to bad leadership, be it in our small communities in the estates, to our schools, to our city council, to our work places…. until we think bad leadership is normal.

PS. God forbid they dig up that beautiful facility.

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