By The cutting edge
Posted Friday, January 27 2012 at 17:32
Posted Friday, January 27 2012 at 17:32
DO WE NEED THEM? What use is it having assistant ministers if they cannot step into the shoes of their bosses should they be required to step aside for whatever reason? poses Ruth Gituma, of course, in response to the Cabinet mini shuffle following Finance minister Uhuru Kenyatta’s resignation. Says she: “For the umpteenth time, I ask: What is the role of an assistant minister? Are these positions necessary? If one minister can hold two busy portfolios, then we can do with a maximum of 15 ministries and save a lot of taxpayers’ money.”
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DARK AGES. Kenya Power, which is supposed to provide light, still lives in the dark ages, remarks Benny Ouma, who lives in a block of flats in Nairobi’s Eastlands with 14 other tenants, one of whom has not been paying his bills. To nail the defaulter, KP personnel turned up on January 23, as Benny was preparing to watch the live coverage of the ruling on the Ocampo Six, and disconnected power. “They ignored our pleas, hurriedly got into their car and drove off,” says Benny, whose account is No 2038863-01.
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NIGHTMARISH ROAD. To blame for the degeneration of the nice murram road, namely Kamburu Road, off Ngong Road, Nairobi, Alfonso Gribaldi reports, are earth-moving equipment and heavy trucks involved in the construction of storeyed buildings on Kindaruma Road, next to Bristol Court. He is demanding that the Kenya Urban Roads Authority immediately dispatches a grader to level the road and erect speed bumps to lessen the damage. “It’s a nightmare getting home, especially when it rains,” Alfonso moans. His contact is alfgribaldi@yahoo.com
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CHEATED. Why would the government discriminate against children who sit national exams in private schools and yet their parents are taxpayers? poses a thoroughly disappointed Maina Macharia. According to him, this is the worst mockery of leaders’ impassioned calls to citizens to work hard and pay taxes to enable the government to provide public services, which their children are then so blatantly denied. The only solution, he adds, is to build more schools. His contact is familywings@familywings.co.ke
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THE DIRTIEST TOWN. The queer habits of Kenyans, Benson K. Mujomba declares, include a weird love for dirt and stinking, uncollected garbage. A visit to any town inevitably takes one past or through heaps of garbage along dusty roads or paths with clogged smelly drains, and open food markets. But the township he believes deserves the dubious reputation of being the dirtiest in the country is Ongata Rongai. The town centre has not a single dustbin and alien to them is the word sanitation. His contact is mashariki.kenya@gmail.com
Have a clean day, won’t you!
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