Europeans sitting in a conference room drinking wine and watching in aghast at the contorted landscape that is Dandora Dumpsite. In their minds, they’re watching in fascination and awe at how Africa is indeed a shithole of human suffering.
So what happened to Sonko’s great plan of turning Dandora into a power station?
The tender is out however canvassing is high at city hall and OP. UAE firms, Chinese and German all pushing for finance, build and operate. What we consider trash dumpsite they know is raw materials for a recycling plan, power plant, manure plant and gas/chemical plant. My opinion is that this will need President Uhuru direct control or it may turn out to be another war between City hall and OP.
I feel like that jostling has been ongoing since early 2010. I don’t think it should be built in Nairobi but in Kajiado. They have hectares of land not being used. The idea of a decentralized waste to energy plant is a much better approach to handling Nairobi’s garbage problem as well as the region. The centralized power plant in Dandora is just another avenue of corruption and cost inflation.
Hakuna county ingine itakubali trash ya county ingine iletwe uko. Kajiado, Kiambu, Machakos and Muranga refused outrightly on those plans. It has to be in Nairobi.
You are staring at the reasons for John Gakuo and Taib Ali Taib’s troubles. The two engaged an Italian firm to manage and recycle waste in Nairobi and Mombasa na hapo ndio wakajua hawajui.
the existence of counties is enshrined in the katiba, we don’t need to conflate them into one big county. The metropolitan area can just exist on paper.