Ukoloni uko kenya

eliakeem said:
for short minded people like you could ask such a silly question. sounds as if you are living in DC, while surrounded by extremely poverty in Nairobi.
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We're poor, but Tanzania is in the major leagues of poverty.
 

Look to this proud blind budda, where he belongs.

Evictions in Nairobi: Why the city has a problem and what can be done to fix it
Tuesday, December 11, 2018 9:49
Some of Kenya Railways' houses in Upper Hill's Matumbato Road, Nairobi, where tenants were evicted from on April 24 2014. Forceful evictions, whether legal or illegal, are typical in the city. FILE PHOTO | NMG


A new road in Nairobi, Kenya, is set to displace up to 30,000 Kibera slum residents. The bulldozers moved in the early hours of the morning as authorities pressed ahead with a controversial decision to force people out. Kefa Otiso explains why forced evictions are so prevalent in Nairobi, and what can be done to prevent them.
Why do forced evictions happen in Nairobi?
They happen for lots of reasons. But the mains ones are ambitious development plans, the high cost of land, an acute shortage of affordable housing, and a lack of land rights.
Evictions happen when people fail to pay loans or rent, or when they illegally occupy public or private land. They also result from land ownership disputes – though some of these are criminally engineered through irregular or corrupt land deals.
But probably the most visible cases of forced eviction happen when the government reclaims land for public uses like road construction.
This problem is not unique to Nairobi; it is prevalent in many other African cities.
The exact number of evictions in Nairobi isn’t known. But they’re quite common in the city as widely reported in the press. They shouldn’t be so prevalent.
The 2010 constitution protects individual rights, and should reduce incidents of forced evictions in the city. But poor citizen awareness, high legal costs, a history of unequal land access, poor planning, high levels of corruption and inefficient land markets all mean that evictions keep happening.
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Are all the evictions legal?
No. Some are legal, others are illegal.
Legal evictions use warnings and court orders to enforce the decision, which is carried out by armed police and bulldozers. In the cases of illegal evictions, especially those involving corrupt land deals, such niceties are a luxury. Evictions have been known to happen in the middle of the night, carried out by hired thugs, often with wanton destruction of property and attacks on the occupants.
These types of forceful evictions, whether legal or illegal, are typical in the city’s slum areas. They mostly happen unannounced in morning raids, when residents are either asleep or at work and are therefore less likely to resist. The latest raid also happened in the early hours of the morning.
What impact do they have?
By forcing people out of their homes and denying them their right to due legal process, forced evictions exact a huge negative impact on people’s socioeconomic welfare. They often lose their belongings and potential livelihoods without compensation, and don’t have any other place to live.
Forced evictions also undermine local and national development by destroying accumulated social and economic networks and property. Thus, displaced people often have to start and rebuild their lives from scratch in new locations.
What is the government failing to do?
Kenya is still dealing with the lingering effects of nearly 70 years of British colonial rule which laid the foundation of many of Nairobi’s ongoing social and economic problems, including forced evictions.
The colonial government purposely under-invested in housing for indigenous Kenyans by claiming that Africans were best suited for rural life. In reality, this was a ploy to ensure adequate supply of cheap African labour to European commercial farms in Kenya’s former “White Highlands.”
Moreover, the colonial government restricted African access to Nairobi and implemented other race-based policies which prioritised European and Asian access to the city’s land and other economic resources. As a result the majority of the African population settled in unsafe areas. These became the precursor of many modern slum and squatter settlements that are vulnerable to forced evictions.
While independence legally changed many of these policies, their legacy still remains – not least because the city’s postcolonial governments have retained many of the colonial era’s urban management tools, including forced evictions.
These policies undermined African investment in their settlements because they came to see the city as a temporary place to live. Other African communities, like the Nubian population, recruited from Sudan by the British army for the Africa Rifles regiment, were purposefully settled on public land – which comprises part of modern day Kibera slum. But because neither the British nor independent Kenya gave the Nubians a title deed for the land until 2017, and even then it was only for a small portion of the original land, the Nubians continue to remain stateless and landless for much of their history in Nairobi.
Consequently, they have long been unable to develop their area or stop the growth of the slum that now surrounds them. They, and other Kibera residents, have as a result endured many forced evictions.
Today, Nairobi is in many ways still a city that has an elitist orientation that mostly benefits its relatively small middle and upper class elites. While these elites often live in gated estates, most of the city’s population is concentrated in cramped slum and squatter settlements that lack even basic services and utilities.
Are there lessons that can be learnt from other countries?
Yes, there are many.
First, Kenya needs to complete the creation of its national digital land registry. This will increase transparency and efficiency of the city’s land market, decrease corrupt land deals and reduce forced evictions by lowering the number of land disputes.
Second, more needs to be done to make the 2010 Constitution a reality. For instance, citizens need to be better informed of their rights and responsibilities.
Third, recreate Kenya’s municipal governments which, under the 2010 Constitution, were replaced by County Governments. The municipal structure was similar to the US’s system for running urban areas and is potentially more effective at managing the country’s urban areas and creating more housing.
Fourth, make more use of the urban planning and management experience of international actors – like the United Nations Human Settlements Programme, which is fortuitously headquartered in Nairobi.
Finally, Nairobi needs to make its political economy more inclusive, implement proper land reform, domesticate its municipal planning and related by–laws, and create a proactive slum and squatter settlements policy.


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kennedy0000 said:
Tanzania, a nation that cannot speak English, leads in extreme poverty numbers.
And you are here trying to tell Kenyans, who are richer than you, that learning English is bad.
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Eti,., what about china russia, france, germany etc
 

In Kenya we prefer large land holdings. That's the only way production will ever grow, and that's how the entire progressive world operates.
In Tanzania you can continue subdividing your lands till everyone is left with a tiny grave plot. And you will continue leading in extreme poverty cases.
 
french said:
Eti,., what about china russia, france, germany etc
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English is taught in most European countries as a second language. Many of them speak it.

China is too big a market by itself. Very high population has made them achieve economies of scale that even force the rest of the world to learn Mandarin.

Tanzania is a small country and without speaking the language that most of your neighbours understand, will forever remain isolated.
 
Zygot said:
Now I see why Uhuru will continue owning half of the country's soil, still enjoying the support of majority of enslaved brain.
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Majority of Kenyans are already voluntarily leaving their lands upcountry to go to urban areas.
Kenya is following the footsteps of developed countries. Urbanization.

We're not in the stone ages where 1 person feeds himself only.
Today, 1 person can feed 100,000 people.
 
That is a theory you wish to advertise! Fellow! The country is owned by a single family and you are saying 'we'! You are not one of the 'we' and the Kibera people may end up cursing your brain for that thinking.

btw., Did you say anything on the video showing a fellow Kenyan being slapped by a thin-legged white man, so comfortably? Is it a question of high level of development too? Which deduction are you making out of the show?
 
Zygot said:
Now I see why Uhuru will continue owning half of the country's soil, still enjoying the support of majority of enslaved brain.
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Stone age mentality. People are urbanizing while your fellow countrymen are holding onto their small grave plots.
Less than 5% of American families own land. Here in Kenya, the number is more than 70%.
But even that 70% is leaving their rural homes to go to cities.
 
You seem useless! I have wasted my time trying to show you a way out of stupidity and you are sliding back to corroded brain! What is wrong with you. Urbanization!

When did Kenyatta family take the land? You seem not aware of yourself. Stop writing those nonsensical texts.
 

How has your land helped you? You have the highest number of extreme poverty in EAC, SADC and number 3 in Africa.

It's time you leave land to those who can be productive with it.
Majority of those in Kibera have rural homes. They come to Nairobi for 'greener pastures' and only have themselves to blame for living in such shit conditions.
 

You are very obsessed with Kenyatta's land. You fail to see the obvious in your own country.
Your land is not helping you. You are still extremely poor.

Even if Kenyatta's land was to be sub-divided,(and a lot of it is in unlivable areas) people will not stop deserting rural areas to come to urban areas for more progressive sectors like manufacturing. They will leave that land behind to come and live in Kibera and other slums.
 
Is english not taught in Tanzanian schools?
 
Very sorry fellow! With all that bragging, it's only Kenya in the EAC that still bless itself with machete attack every after 5 years of political evaluation. I just checked how you are already starting to recognize your tribal grouping ready for a common turmoil.

Tell me, friendly, which tribe are you going to vote in office this time? Don't hate my question, it is a way the world knows you, a sign of underdeveloped community surprisingly you are saying you are developed.
 

Even when Kenya gets into tribal fights, we still remain a vibrant economy that peaceful Tanzania can only wish to be.
This should probably tell you that your small burial plots are not helping your factors of production.
 
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