Ghetto Gava: Exposing Electricity and Water Cartels in Kibera and Mathare [Part 1]

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[@davidsvarrer8942]

People in Kibera and Mathare slums should be empowered to handle their problems themselves. The area could be divided up, and a board could be formed by randomly picked persons who would be replaced also randomly every 12 months, and then given resources in form of an allowance while being on the board, plus access to get the service personnel from KPLC, and Nairobi Water to work for them. The board would make plans for what should be done, then there should be allocated sufficient funds for some work to be done, and then the board should be the judge of results. The power should be made cheaper for slum dwellers and so should water. I am myself one of those who cannot tell what the solution should be. Except that the solution should be thought out by these good people themselves and then authorities should be the ones carrying out the work. As in: If there are 3 million people settled in one of these slums, and it takes, say, 1 day to connect 8 homes properly in a structured way, then Nairobi Water could hire trainers to train other trainers in proper water connection and proper electricity connection and then have their own staff direct those locally trained people to do the last mile connections. A part of the solution could be to simply distribute small but very high quality solar panels and batteries to everyone. And on the water side - to create proper distribution points with high speed filling of jerrycans (like a 1.5 inch pressured pipe which can be operated electrically and fill a jerrycan in for instance 5 seconds without spilling (timed accurately). This would stop the queues and if the cost of Jerry canned water could be simply set to kshs 0 - free - then cartels would die out. Lastly the sewage must also be dealt with. Public toilets everywhere which are maintained clean could be a solution. Again. The people living there should be in charge. The issue I am trying to address is to avoid pipes and wires totally. Whether water, electricity or sewage. And centralize those. Lastly but not the least: The garbage must be sorted out. The garbage is actually an energy source if collected and incinerated at high temperature. As it is now it spreads disease and discomfort. Therefore garbage could be collected against payment. Garbage trucks could be stationed at the entrances to these slums and everyone who brings a can of garbage will be paid 1 kshs. Every truckload would carry some 800 canisters of garbage (20 liter Jerry cans), resembling roughly 20 tonnes of garbage. That would cost the municipality 800 Bob for the garbage and a similar amount in diesel and salaries to drive to the incinerator. The maybe 30000 to 50000 truckloads necessary to drive away could be sorted out within a couple of years and it would not cost the city much, and the way to do it could continue but at a sustainable level, when the piles have been cleared. Every household produces approximately 0.5 kilogram of garbage per day. In the slum maybe 1 million households host 3 million people, leaving thereby some 500 tonnes of garbage per day, or, 25 truck loads per day. 1 years of garbage thereby resembles some 8000 truck loads. Hence the possible clearing of some 30000 to 50000 truckloads over a few years before continuing with the maybe 25 truckloads per day. If organised a bit the necessary maybe 300 truckloads per day could be carried out with 1 truck doing 3 round trips per day, thereby occupying 100 trucks ferrying garbage every day for some years until it can be reduced to 25 or so per day.

[@destroyerarmor]

Government will never have such kind of plans

[@blueisthecolor3004]

@@liznyaga5525 that project had already started, but it was politicised, kwani are you from England? Umekuja Kenya juzi?

[@liznyaga5525]

@@blueisthecolor3004 they built the houses but did nothing to the slum. I saw in the news, read online. Rwanda built houses for their poor, wish our government could emulate Rwanda. But watu hawatosheki people in Rwanda complain that the government houses are far from their places of work. So gava ikiprovide housing pia inaexpectiwa iprovide source of livelihood. It seems solving one problem creates another. But its better they eliminate the slums first and worry about jobs later. This way the international media will have few negative things to say about Kenya. I saw a comment somewhere that Nigerians think Kenyans are poor n am sure it's coz of the numerous documentaries about kibera by the western media.

[@michaelheery3085]

no rubbish incinerator in Africa.

[@reomanawasted4939]

this is our home.. RIP to Eliza the kid that was electrocuted. cartels are killing our pockets and endangering our lives

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Lawlessness and corruption is beyond repair.

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This illegal electricity connection is so dangerous

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Where finished as a country, its a ticking bomb Hatari Sanaa!

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Seeing them put off electrical fire with water as a fire marshal 😢😢

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Can the myth that Kibera is the largest slum in Africa end??? That claim was made way back in the late 2000s by NGOs who used to claim that Kibera had nearly a million people in order to get donor funds. The last two censuses have highlighted the fact that Kibera is not only not that dense, it is not even the largest slum in Nairobi. Mukuru slums is the largest. According to the 2019 census, Kibera slum is entirely in Kibra Constituency and covers 4 of its 5 wards excluding Woodley-Golf Course estate ward. When you exclude Woodley, Kibra constituency has a total population of around 130, 000 people. Well below the 700,000-1 million claimed by some NGOs. It is also sad to see a Kenyan journalist making this claim when it has been debunked(several times now) even by our own media, the census and even by looking at things like number of voters coming from Kibera who would represent most of the adult population there.

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Good information

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If you belive there are 130k people in Kibera you are either high or have never stepped on Nairobi. If only 130k people lived in kibera they would each live on a quarter acre plot

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@@u-know-this I literally live in Nairobi. 2. You must be extremely poor in Mathematics and have poor eyesight if you think 130k people would have a quarter acre in Kibera. All of Kibera occupies 2.38 square kilometers. This is not me who said this, this is a figure you can find on every survey of Nairobi and also something you can literally use Google Maps to measure. You can literally see the entire slum from one vantage point in Lang'ata. It really is not that big. It has a lot of people squeezed in one area but Kibera is not big. Even in terms of size, Mukuru combined with Viwandani is bigger physically. If the claim that Kibera had 700,000 people was true, it would mean that Kibera has 300,000 people per square kilometer And this is a a slum with very few buildings going above three floors. Unless the people sleep while standing and do not move whatsoever, this is an impossibility. There is no place on Earth that is that densely populated Even at 130,000 people, Kibera is more congested than many highrise slumburbia estates like Pipeline where at least it can make sense because many buildings of even to 10 floors. Kibera has 130,000 people. Unless you want to dispute 20 years of data or want to claim that Kibera occupies like all of Nairobi province

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blame NGo.

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Killing is killing whether through electricity or through mugging.

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No State Benefits in Kenya even for Widows or Orphans

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When we see these residents travelling upcountry, it means they likely left arable land for this life?

[@skonchy9249]

The problem in kenya is the cartels...we remove all of them and we have very good country...

[@waynegerard457]

Early this month the cartels connected Langata estates with sewer so they can supply the water using water bowsers,

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Wacha nikae ushago 🤮🤮

[@rosemarymungai2415]

And this is where they elected a person like jalango to safe them someone with NO HISTORY of what goes on there kenya count your safe out of development in africa

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Kenya is immensely lawless

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Where is Sakaja??????

[@Ms.T]

I just hope someone in authority sees the plight of Kenyas and does something asap... Everyone has the constitutional right to basic necessities...

[@lekis5975]

No one is going to come and rescue Kenyans, power concedes nothing unless pushed. Kenyans must unite and take back the country from the minority.

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why are they uising water to put out fire caused by electricity

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I am not surprised hii ni Kenya

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I like Jeroh says it as it ought to be

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Do you know SHOFCO?

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There is no good planning in kenya, I have seen new water pipes coming to Nairobi but there is another story, do you know people are subdividing land even in nyandarua where we have arable land to farm

[@iamjoseph795]

I live in kibera makina this is what real happening there bt government don't care

[@skonchy9249]

If the government tries to finish this cartels, kibera and mathare would burn into chaos while they say the govt is interfiering with them because of their political stand....yani it would be politicised

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The President does not know?

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Let the government build affordable houses and put everything in order that is the only way this can stop

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What is the solution?

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People are SLEEPING on this channel bro. Who will save Kenya surely?

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Hata nani aseme, we don't love our country. The love of money is killing us, slowly but surely.

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hapo kwa pipes naona duct za fiber hahaH,,the purple ones are stolen from liquid telecom, green ones safaricom and the white ones are from GOK(nofbi)

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Can you see Save the Children? Amref? Comic Relief?

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And the opposition leader is against Slum upgrading program

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Where is UKAid? USAid?

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They are called KPLC. Kibera power.

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Kennedy Odede?

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Alafu mwana siasa anaenda kujipiga kifua mbele ya umati

[@Adamkaso]

This video is very missleading especially about kibra

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Kenyatta a Multi Billionaire did nothing

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Sequestered in poverty

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It's called Slumic state

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Babu for president

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Am a living witness this is not new to me

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Very interesting and necessary exposé. Would have been a 10/10 were it not for the narrators questionable accent.

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