via Kenn Okaka -Nairobi.
If we are being honest, the flooding we see today wasn’t born yesterday.
It is the result of decades of looking the other way. We should be looking back at the town clerks and mayors of the 70s, 80s, and 90s—the people who were then mandated to run this city.
If they had done their jobs then, we wouldn’t be where we are today.
Floods are a natural reality; they happen everywhere when the rain goes beyond the norm. It’s not just Nairobi—it’s happening as far as Migori. But in Nairobi, everyone wants a villain.
What people don’t want to admit is that once the rain stops, the water actually moves. Why?
Because we have the “Green Army”—young men and women out there in the mud, working on the drains so the water can flow as fast as possible.
They are doing the heavy lifting while we sit in traffic and complain.
Now, we have to ask ourselves a very difficult question: Do we really want the Governor to fix this?
Because fixing this means demolishing houses and businesses that were built on top of water and sewage lines years ago.
It means undoing the work of people who diverted natural water flows for their own gain long before Sakaja ever took office.
We blame him today, but if he starts the overhaul and the bulldozers come for those structures sitting on our drainage lines, will we support him? Or will we start crying again?
We can’t have it both ways.
We either fix the city, or we keep protecting the mistakes of the past.
Kenn Okaka is a Communications and PR Expert
