THE CUTTING EDGE - Daily Nation

HEROES' SQUARE: On the burial site of retired president Daniel Moi, Joseph Macharia disagrees with the choice of his private Kabarak home in Nakuru County as the right final resting place for the long-serving leader. Says he: “As a former Head of State, I think it’s not good for him to be interred at his private farm.” Moi, Joseph strongly feels, should ideally be buried at a national place, preferably next to First President Mzee Jomo Kenyatta’s mausoleum at Parliament Buildings in Nairobi’s city centre. The long-overdue establishment of a national Heroes’ Square, he adds, is something that must now be seriously addressed and speeded up. His contact is

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DIVISIVE LEADERS: While the Building Bridges Initiative rallies are supposedly meant to unite Kenyans, John Walela Lukuyani is suspicious about them. “We, the citizens, are not divided. I am happy with my neighbours and we talk and greet one another with smiles.” The only places where Kenyans are divided, John adds, include the cattle rustling-prone areas. “The politicians know that they are the ones dividing the people along tribal lines to garner support for the seats they want created for them. Let’s have forums to discuss the development agenda instead.” His contact is

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TRAFFIC FLOW: Showering with praises the traffic police officers in Kitengela Township, Kajiado County, southeast of Nairobi, on the busy Namanga Road is Lilian Karani. But she cannot say the same of their colleague on Mombasa Road at Syokimau in Machakos. She lauds the pair in Kitengela and their base commander: “The traffic is well manned by the two, until just before Gateway Mall at Syokimau all the way to the JKIA junction in Nairobi. Those in charge need to go back to the drawing board as traffic jams have become a nightmare, starting from early as 6am.” Her contact is

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SPORTS NEGLECT: The last major government investment in the development of sports facilities, Thomas Yebei notes, was in 1987, with the construction of the Moi International Sports Complex at Kasarani, Nairobi. Many of the current top sportsmen and women were not even born then and have grown up to use those facilities. “That was 33 years ago, yet we like to brag that Kenya is a superpower in sports. What a shame!” He also cannot understand why developing sports is not one of the pillars of ‘Big Four Agenda’, despite the ‘athletes having raised the country’s profile in a big way’. His contact is

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