Unalia tomato sauce hujaona masaibu ya liquor licence. Gafana waliingia distribution licence zikagonga 100K for a whole county. Ama ulipie for each subcounty 20k.
Ujinga ingine ni Street parking. Kila town iko subcounty different yet in the same county unapata van imelipa 700 in a single day. Na hawajui annual parking fee ni nini.
Malindi county has gone down in history of stealing devolved funds directly from county accounts at Central Bank to individuals accounts. 1 billion, they didn’t even bother doing fake suppliers tenders or inflated tenders. Direct theft. However this is not news to our opposition. Kingi only response was that the funds was diverted to accounts based in Nairobi so automatically it’s not Malindi officials. Sari Kama pamba ya babuon.
Unasema parking… Kuja Susutanate HQ ulipie the monthly parking for PSV halafu upeleke gari garage then sticker ya parking iwe expired. Ukirudi wanadai parking charges for the time gari ilikuwa garage… Hawajui mambo ya parking as you go for PSV. Ni kama hiyo pesa inakuwanga kwa budget ya msee flani hapo…
The only respite to this ni watu kuungana na kukataa ukoloni. Unity, indeed, is strength. We did it, and starved our county of revenue for a full four months until they sued for peace. On our terms. A few years back there used to be minibuses called Gilead Express that plied some of the routes nearby. Them Karatina municipal council decided to play some of these shenanigans on their bus and crew. They were sued in court ilibidi wametii!
11 years ago, at midnight, driving with the wife from Malindi to our room in Mtwapa, we came across a decent police road block. We got cleared and proceeded. The time was 11 pm. Barely 500 mts later, our jalopy at 90mph, we spot spikes across the road about 10 metres away…another road block. There’s no way we can stop, so we fly over the spikes.
The truck stops about another 20 metres after.
Guilty, and fearing gunshots, I reverse back to the roadblock.
Police onge.
Chupa za mnazi hapo chini na ile taa @Meria Mata huita koroboi.
Polisi mitini.
Mungu asaidie Jokilifi wake.
Tuliponea.
Mguu ndio hiyo.
Just in case you say that my remark ni hekaya, here is the globally respected The Economist:
The name, meaning literally “kill me quick”, is well chosen. This and other methanol-based kickers are sometimes fatal: 10ml of methanol can burn the optic nerve; 30ml can kill. Even without the kicker the brew is impure. The water is filthy with fecal matter. When police recently made some raids, decomposing rats and women’s underwear were found in servings of chang’aa. But the price and the potency are more tempting than the heavily taxed bottles of beer that are the staple of richer Kenyans.
Was in Kilifi today. The bridge is somehow repaired, not fit for heavy vehicles though. The swamp is now a fully fledged lake…and the county askaris are still in their drab brown uniforms!