How do we stop governors’ affinity for megalomania?
A signpost outside Kahara Primary School in Nyeri County, central Kenya, on June 4, 2020 showing a pit latrine project. The county government came under fire from social media for erecting this signage. PHOTO | JOSEPH KANYI | NMG
You probably saw the monstrosity on Kenyan news or on social media. The billboard proclaiming that Nyeri Governor Mutahi Kahiga and a Member of the County Assembly (MCA) were the guiding lights in the construction of a single pit latrine in a neglected school. The governor’s and MCA’s beneficent faces smile down from the billboard at the residents of Nyeri.
Now this is obnoxious on two levels. First, several latrines should have been built many years ago in all schools in the county. That only a single one in one school is being built, and the fact that in other schools children use toilets in unspeakable conditions, should be a source of great shame to the leadership of Nyeri County.
