My checklist for Nairobi governor candidates

An aerial view of Nairobi's city centre on February 6, 2017. PHOTO | JEFF ANGOTE | NATION MEDIA GROUP

What you need to know:

  • How long will it take you to make redundant private water vendors by ensuring clean piped water to every home?
  • What is your programme for repossession and reconstruction of playgrounds, social halls, parks and other disappearing amenities?
  • When you have answered these questions, come over and ask for my vote

On September 27 last year, 314 days to the General Election, I issued the following questionnaire for anyone seeking my vote as governor of Nairobi.

Not a single aspirant bothered to reply. With 75 days to go, the questions remain as valid as ever.

Over to you Evans Kidero, Peter Kenneth, Mike Sonko and Miguna Miguna.

Oh, and we also have more on the provisional list: Messrs Godfrey Wanyoike, Christopher Mokaya, John Mbugua, Michael Mumo, Francis Inganji, Lawrence Macharia and Kenneth Marende:

  • Have you ever been charged, convicted, investigated, or mentioned adversely in connection with a criminal offence?

  • Have you ever been linked to theft of funds or appropriation of land and other public assets?

  • Have you ever been involved in mismanagement and destruction of State corporations?

  • Have you ever, in public or private, displayed bad behaviour and lack of civility?

  • If elected, how long will it take you to drive pirate transport operators out of business by establishing an efficient, reliable, and clean city-wide commuter transport network?

  • How long will it take you to make redundant private water vendors by ensuring clean piped water to every home?

  • How long will it take to push the garbage collection cartels out of business by ensuring an effective and efficient waste collection and disposal system?

  • What incentives do you have for commercial, industrial, and manufacturing concerns willing to set up shop in Nairobi?

  • How much time will you require to bring city health and education institutions to required capacity and standards?

  • What is your programme for repossession and reconstruction of playgrounds, social halls, parks and other disappearing amenities?

  • What is your plan for affordable and decent middle and lower-class housing?

  • How soon will you tackle the problem of the growing number of the homeless (and associated crime) and the need to remove street people from the streets and place them in rehabilitation centres?

When you have answered these questions, come over and ask for my vote.