A few weeks ago, I wrote in this column bout the challenge for Nairobi County and the need for efforts to improve the image of the city. A short while after, I spent a weekend in different parts of the central business district. Even though I live and work in the city, I do not frequent the CBD. On this particular weekend though I walked through several streets.
Walking along Moi Avenue I was shocked at the run-down nature of the pavements. I shuddered to imagine how we could, as a country, be seeking to compete with the world’s greatest cities when ours was still suffering from basic dilapidation and neglect.
