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Why have we prioritised the wrong projects?

Workiers at Lumumba Estate Affordable Housing Project in Kisumu. [Michael Mute, Standard]

Laikipia County was in the news the other day, once again for all the wrong reasons. This time, they unveiled a joke of an invention, a contraption supposed to be a sort of ambulance married to a motorcycle.

It looked like it was put together by some fellows with a blow torch, but no blueprints or anything to suggest any thought went into the process. The thing doesn’t have any shock absorbers, no stability, no brakes, nothing.

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