Y'all should respekk your elders. 😎

Took a road trip🚗 down west, & let me tell you! 🌅✨Welcome to 𝙎𝙤𝙧𝙞, 𝙃𝙤𝙢𝙖𝙗𝙖𝙮 𝘾𝙤𝙪𝙣𝙩𝙮-a truly hidden gem you need to see🙂. Kinda a short thread 🧵

Last night, at a friend’s house party, I bumped into many old friends, prominent businessmen and women, lawyers, and other professionals some of whom I’ve known for years and others I got to know over the course of the evening. One of the main topics of conversation across the various groups was just how far we’ve regressed as a nation and more so as a city. We found ourselves reminiscing about the old days, from the 80s and 90s to the early 2000s and reflecting on how Nairobi, and Kenya in general, once had a real sense of progress and pride. We spoke about how we had proper restaurants, bars, and clubs and how the city in many ways felt ahead of its time. Looking back now, it genuinely felt as though we were living in the future. But today, it all feels like a distant dream because none of that remains. It’s only now, having lost it all, that we truly appreciate just how special those times were. I met several businessmen and women who have since moved on into other ventures like real estate and other investments simply because they said the business environment has deteriorated so badly over the years that it’s no longer worth the stress or the headache, whilst others downsized totally. What struck me the most was how deeply people still love this country and how painful it is for them to witness the sheer decline. This morning, I woke up still reflecting on those conversations and decided to take a drive through the city centre. The photos I took tell the story all too well, from Kenyatta Avenue to Westlands, there’s garbage everywhere, open manholes, appalling road conditions and drains filled with stagnant water and filth. Yet that little boy TakaTaka1 keeps gaslighting us with his childish theatrics and nonsense on social media, claiming that “Nairobi is working.” It’s absolutely shameful how low we’ve sunk. The city is in complete disarray, a total mess.

You can rob Kenyans of their taxes, threaten them, imprison them, kill them, and masquerade as a leader but one day, you will also perish.