i was really irked by this post from @byro titled Coasterian and Logic
http://www.kenyatalk.com/index.php?threads/coasterians-and-logic.17107/
Now let me make one thing clear …the former coast province starts somewhere after Mtiti Andei all the way to Mombasa, Lamu,kiunga which is on the boarder to Somalia…Tana River District which touches the Former North Eastern Province…so when someone says “coasterians” it encompasses all this area(what happens in mombasa does not constitute the entire coastal region)…now a lot of tribes live here/are indiginous to this area from the Taita, to the Taveta, kamba, swahili,the pokomo, the Mijikenda(which are made up of 9 distinct tribes)Arabs, oromo, somali, bajuni, the boni, indians, comoros, etc etc…(cushites, bantus,nilotes) all in the mix…christians, muslims, budhhist,hindus, traditionalist…all with their own customs and traditions…and above all they are all individuals with their own human reasoning skills and abilities…for someone to claim that coasterians all act and reason in certian way because some of them have a different political persuation than your own simply beats logic(and i’m dissapointed by those who cheered him on)…This is simply called Steriotyping…and all of you know the common examples of our tribal streotypes but i wont dwell on that).
There is no tribe in Kenya that is superior than the other…i believe everyone(individually) has a right to make their own choices(politcal, social and economic) included and this is guaranteed in our constitution and its AN ABSOLUTE RIGHT…just because individuals do not support your political candidate or party does not make them inferior to you…Coastal Residents are kenyans who pay their fair share of taxes and non whisttanding their different political aspiration they are entitled to Government Services like any other area in Kenya…we are in a multiparty Era which every party and its leadership is free to come to any area and sell its policies and convince the electrolate to vote for it…THATS IT…hii mambo ya kusema ati wapwani wanadanganywa sijui…ohhh mkikosa kuwa kwa serikali hamtapa maendeleo…ohhhh
This is the reason why people yearned for Devolution…not only of power but resources…so that they could have a direct voice and choice of what was important to them locally…so as not to depend on the National Government. Those stories of you have to be in Government for you to get “development” are things of a bygone era…look at Baringo District despite having a president who for several decades has it gained from that yoa all saw the problems with banditry,famine, lack of roads and health centers…look at Kiambu its has one of the highest levels of poverty and unemployment
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LgfcqgD_zac
https://www.opendata.go.ke/facet/counties/Kiambu
Now back to the water issue…this issue jhas been inherited from the former local Governments and Provinces with the following large Districts (Kilifi,Kwale,Taita Taveta,Lamu District,Mombasa,Tana River)
Kilifi County( Kilifi town council, Kilifi county council, Mariakani town council)
Kwale County( Kwale town council,Kwale county council, Malindi District,Malindi municipality,Malindi county council)
Lamu County( Lamu county council)
Mombasa County (Mombasa municipality)
Taita-Taveta District(Taita-Taveta county council,Taveta town council,Voi municipality)
Tana River County(Tana river county council)
which did not have capacity to enforce and collect payment for services delivered leading to hundreds of millions of bills to pile up unremmited)…several Governement departnets like prisons, District and PC offices and ministries are also defaulters…and this situiation is not unique to coast province…even there in Nairobi and other counties the situation of defaulters is similar
The Transitional Authority, Incoming County Government and The National Government were supposed to come up with a formula on how this liabilities were going to be distributed amongst them which has never been done
Here is what the local Mvita MP who is a very diplomatic chap had to say about this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dusfHTUuipU
so i urge you before you post something take a wholistic view…Ni hayo tu