I think being a Kenyan is very entertaining. Minding my own business listening to the radio on my way to work this morning, I started laughing so hard that other road users were puzzled. And no it was Kingangi & Maina. It was the news.
To give this news segment some background: you all know about the numerous road expansion projects that are underway in the country. You've probably also heard the way a bunch of investor/landowners on Mombasa Road, lead by the Standard Group, are crying foul claiming that the proposed expansion of the road into their property was nothing more than a ploy to frustrate them reading mischief from the government. Their complaint may sound a little far fetched but consider the amounts of money they must have sank into their investments, only for the government to belatedly come and say "nice building and all, but we want that land"!
Anyhoo, what had me in stitches was the comment by Orengo the Lands Mininster. Apparently, according to him, there was indeed some mischief because these guys own large pieces of land and yet chose to construct on the very edge that's nearest the road! According to him, they were the authors of their own misfortune and in fact had been trying to set up the government to look bad.
I hope that one day when the earth has been reduced to smitherins by annoyed Mother Nature and all of humanity wiped out, the intelligent life form that will scavage through the reckage will not come upon that pearl of wisdom and gauge the human intelligence therefrom.
Have a sharp day!!!
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