The current floods have brought forth some thoughts I have had regarding technocrats in Kenya.
Technocrats are individuals with technical training and occupations who perceive many important societal problems as being solvable with the applied use of technology and related applications.
Source: Wikipedia
Building is not guess work – there are standards to it. And right now, there are civil engineers at City Hall who have rubber stamped the construction of roads, bridges, drainage etc and yet they are below standard.
At the end of a day of soliciting bribes – they are quick to say “today I did so much work.”
Honestly it should be embarrassing to be an engineer because part of the issue is lack of standards. All one has to do if they want shortcuts is bribe someone, and after all corruption is the Kenyan culture. And when things go wrong – we all wonder – what happened?
We know what happened – someone cut corners.
Like seriously – for example – why is the expressway flooding?
And NEMA? A farce in all ways. It should be embarrassing to work there. A bribe collection agency.
Ciiku 