READ THIS http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/4171223.stm
yeah..i agree, theres a lott of other things kenya could be focussing on other than the olympics...but what if...
what if this bid is the Smartest urban management tactic that ochilo and his buddies are pulling?
imagine if kenya actually went ahead and put into place all the wheels to improve our current infrastructure so that we could host the olympics with some ounce of decency?
Fix the roads... fix up the slums...at least create some form of subsidized stock housing, so that when the international press is wandering round nairobi...they dont focus on the slums and the parts of kenya that we ought to be ashamed of.
they may even decide to flush the toilets in nyayo stadium and use harpic to make it smell nice.
RESULT...the Green City in the Sun is BACK!!
and not just for nairobi...imagine if this could happen in many of the surrounding cities/ towns!!
even if we lost the bid...think how different a nairobi we would have. think about the scores of revenue that could come to the kenya because of this infrasturcture that is there..just waiting to be used.
and since people will have stopped complaining about how bad nairobi looks, then we can all seriously focus on economic issues, poverty, unemployment and education issues!
i think it could wrk...stilll havent figured out where the $$ will come frm to do all this...but id be interested to watch this one unfold.
maoniz?
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Its a wonderful proposal and maybe it could work. Yes...one of the things Kenya is best for is getting all dressed up for a show...we know how to kiss ass...But lest is not part of our vocabulary and we easily forget; just as swiftly(or swifter!)that infrastructure could be left to rot until the next foreign politician needs to pass that roundabout in his benz.Example - Nyayo stadium..the All-Africa Games should have been the beginning of good tings...but alack..Harpic is the least of their problems bana!
Given, this would be BIG...large scale, the kind of make-over that wouldnt be that easily erased and maybe it could be maintained...But like you said theres better places to spend the money..and an improvement of the infrastructure would lead to further (than is already happening) displacement of the real problem not only in Nairobi but the whole country...it'd be a surface job...'beauty on the outside' kinda deal.
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