How powerful cartels ruined Nairobi's transport sector
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 7 ต.ค. 2017
- Nairobi was once considered one of Africa's most orderly cities. With booming manufacturing, housing and transport sectors, the city had bright horizons after the 1963 Independence. But as the 1970′s rolled in, the marriage of Big Business and Big Government overtook Nairobi. Central planners in government needed the powerful corporations.The marriage worked well for the politicians and for their corporate cronies, but Nairobi itself entered a decades - long decline. We look at Kenya's stinging public transport sector and how Nairobi got here.
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This is what happens when vital a public sector is left to private business with little or not control from the government. A whole nation is clogged in endless jams.
I miss when u'd notice the jacaranda trees shedding in Woodley, Ngara, beautiful roof tiles in BuruBuru. Ncc used to clean the streets at night and garbage was collected by kamero, KBS used to run on schedule, wed connect buses from one end to the other in less than an hour
Mohinder Dhillon and Bruce Odhiambo have so far passed on without seeing the transformation. RIP to both of them
RIP
How come no actual experts were interviewed for this report? Engineers, city planners and all? Why are we talking to former students from Paris? This report is just as inefficient as the city of Nairobi.
I thought so. Where are the powerful cartels that headline states
Nairobi is overpopulated the construction of other cities such as Konza city and improvement of other existing cities will reduce this because more companies will open up in big modern cities eventually leading people to those cities from Nairobi
interesting to know how and when the maddness began. Avery well combined piece here. educative too. Hope someone is taking notes.
They need to embrace the light rail system such as the Gautrain in South Africa. Then do transit buses in between.
Remove matatus & kiosks then Nairobi will be reborn again.
The national government should move to Isiolo City and leave Nairobi as the financial and cultural hub of the region. Win win situation right there.
I totally agree.
They should move to marsabit
Plot twist, the whole government is controlled by Carter. So they have say over government.
Spot on it's so sad as a Kenyan to see how far back we've fallen I always have the sense we may never recover as a country but maybe someday we will
Pride is zero in Kenya i support the idea...
Wow,,,this is very educational...and these people how they speak with passion,,just amaizing..sounds like this city was a good place but i cant relate..I was born in the 21centuary😂😂😂.
thanks for this report Enoch. let them start by learning how to use traffic lights. the police is a huge part of the problem you didn't cover here.
May you R.I.P Bwana Bruce Odhiambo.
the indian guy says nationalism is Zero in kenya and i kinda agree. It was not untill i left kenya that i started developing that deep attachment an dlove for kenya. What do we do people?
We have tribalism instead of Nationalism.. Tribalism is not even practiced for the betterment of the tribesmen, just a tribesman
Too much rural to urban migration. These are the results, slums, traffic jams
The title is "How powerful cartels ruined Nairobi's transport sector". No mention of cartels. Don't allude. State in no uncertain terms otherwise you run the risk of being called lazy.
Charles Mabiru true
They just complaining of overcrowding without stating what’s the cause behind
The matatus are the cartels. The government let them take over the organized transport system which went on to be riddled with corruption and collapsed
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MENTUHOTEP WEWE UMEKWAMA KWA JUBILEE TAFUTA CHAMA INGINE
You can't expect something better if you're electing people like Sonko
The noise is just out of this world!remember taking a bus to the airport must have been around '99
sonkos nairobi is worse,hawkers everywhere
As long as its the current government and its future plans Nairobi wont find sanity
Government should move to another town and start over again.
Isiolo would be a good place to start.
Nairobi was not designed for the 21st century and beyond. Blaming the matatus and the 'cartels' is not the answer. We need new regulations and policies
Africa is trying to be what it was never meant to be. "Let's do like Europe,US, Singapore" ridiculous
Nairobi used to be good in the 80s.
Organisation of matatu is urgently needed. They can use outskirts of Nairobi to avoid Congestion.
Am kenyan, but we are just poor on everything, policies, infrastructure , the system ain't for kenyans
victor riwa that is right, the country is rich but the people are poor.
The hidden ENEMY over the governmental PUPPETS are corrupt and cause chaos to propagandize TO THE WORLD THAT AFRICA IS INFANTILE!
Not really it used to be the same in Nairobi in the 60s as they say as was in paris n london I actually have a lot of ffotage of nairobi in al the decades from the 50s through to the 80s it doesn't cost as much as one would think we had very good policies infrastructure and systems heel back then we Kenyans were desciplined patriotic and humane but just like in the beginning it's explainned it started going down the shitter once the planners and business started working inconjunction to each other. I wish you could even see the pictures of Nairobi even as late as 82' it was a different place an amazing place
Remember Kenya Bus Service.
Very organised
It makes me bitter to see how far the city fell
Population in Kenya cannot allow Kenya to be how it was in the 1970s. People are buying cars everyday unlike before. Villagers are moving to the city unlike before. Everyone is now trying business unlike before. Drivers and padestrians have no road discipline. That discipline should be athered to first by the help of good police traffic
Cindy Virgo true bro.
I see the common trend. Things went started going down when MOI took over proper.
This madness is responsible for the growth and wealth creation of many Kenyans and we can't go back to an era of monopolies where we have a few people owning Kenya
Nairobi covers a very small area of land. Majority of it going to slum areas, military, paramilitary and police installation. Why can't we move these installations to other areas and expand the infrastructure there?
Lets be sincere. It all happened during moi era when he treated Nairobi and the whole country like a foreign land that he cared less about. Thats when the dumping of garbage in the city started
But does it mean we cant change it
And then Kikuyu corruption took hold, and shit went out of control. This is a verified fact.
kikuyu,kikuyu,kikuyu,bra,bra,bra nk
@@erickwainaina5708 the best times of nairobi was under mayor margaret kenyatta,charles rubia ,and isac lugonzo so check downfall after 1978 who was leader in kenya
This is lots of "Theory" the matatu industry true story can only be told from the point of the matatu cartels that blocked the implementation of the cashless systems and International Labour Organisation initiatives.
Organised public transport was killed in 2004. That's when problems set in
Nairobi has lost its Class as a world City. We need stricter penalties on both pedestrians and drivers. Boda bodas are a menace gliding in between lanes and pedestrians..... Traffic lights hv no meaning....
2004? I want to think it's way before that. from the clip you can see the chaos were legalized by Snr Kenyatta..Then Kibaki added some spice to the broth by zero taxing motorbikes
we need more than scheduled busses, we need proper infrastructure
A country where the government has no control of the transport sector.....what happened to the ones famous Nyayo buses during the 60's......effects of 24 years dictatorship
You should have all listened to Kibaki decongesting Nairobi by building an entire mordern city, Konza City then Nairobians and other Kenyans will learn from Konza assimilate and implement!!
Dem wa paris amejionea mambo akirudi home ........ ata amekua mweusi ...hehehe.....enyewe transport system yetu is trash ....
population has grown leaving Nairobi as squeezed city. gvt needs to relocate some of its facilities to pave way for businesses. like Nairobi park, animals can be relocated to mara, amboseli and other parks since they are facing pollution and interference
...city under the sun.... Corruption levels has pushed things south
Shows how Africa is getting worse while the rest of the world moves ahead.
Ban matatu from the city to the outskirts
So is this an issue with regime change or is it simply population increase and urban-rural migration?
Neither.... We just not yet well evolved as human beings... We have slum like mentality and so we turn everything we touch into a slum
The same like Mombasa and the Coastal as a whole; there was time public transport was in order Buses from Mombasa to Lamu or the other way round were with time limit and exactly time of departure were very monitored by the authorities: the governance was good; from subchief, chief,administrative; I remember in the Coast during and before 1970; vagabond ppl were arrested and returned back to their area chiefs: ( vagarant ) it was a good governance, Adminstration police were attached to sub locations and locations under sub chiefs; chiefs,DO‘s,DC‘s,. Federal way of governance; Mombasa was clean;
nairobi needs buses ,rails and a beltway around nairobi to enable exit and entry of traffic in orderly way.the offices of government need to be decentralised out to the satellite cities to decongest
life was good back then no masks
This is a sad story. No order or organization. The government needs to take control. All the people and traffic in disorderly chaotic mix. I think an organized bus system should be re-established, and all matatus eliminated. Otherwise this chaos will continue. Everywhere you look is matatus all very chaotic.
Well spoken.but the world is growing things will never be the same , i think due to economic challenges and the high cost of living makes our capital city to be very busy most of kenyans go to Nairobi to look for better living
@Asha:
Do you think, say, if the infrastructure found in Nairobi were equally found in other cities e.g. Kisumu, Kericho, Mombasa, Eldoret, Nakuru, ...etc the congestion and draw to one city would be eliminated. It is the lack of equal distribution of resources, tribal elitism, greed, etc that has produced this condition. There used to be trash collection in residential areas, there was no theft of mail/parcels at the post office, long-distance commute was safe and reliable.
Pole pole tutafika. Rome wan't built in a day
Shaaban Shaaban meanwhile we are loosing millions ppl spending 2hrs or more to work in other cities a matter of 30mins maximum.
But was well planned
shenzi wewe
Its our city we cannot judge it,live in it or leave to Belgium
Sinon Peter resignation will not help, be realistic I wud rather fly over.or come in the midle of the nite and leave early!
I geuss you are one of those who come to Nairobi for a better Life, Your Opinion about Nairobi is really Poor Nairobi 20 Years ago was really a Nice city KBS oparating all over the city. and there were Also driving to a well Timed Schedule, You could choose at what time you want to peak up the Bus from A-B. its not like this Horror Matatus which are every where any time.
Nyinyi ndio washenzi mmetoka ocha mmeleta hiyo ushenzi to Nairobi ati your city.
How can someone be so stupid to support the chaos that is Nairobi transport, very myopic and lacking in vision for anything
Comparing Mathare to Paris lmao
Corona was the biggest chance to fix Nairobi.
As usual we failed yet again. The chaos will be back as usual.
A sad tell of affairs.
TECHNOLOGY PLUS NEW WELL ORGANISED MINI CITIES [ TATUS, NORTHLANDS ,AND KONZAS] MINUS SIASA CHAFU WILL SOLVE THE PROBLEM
Theory mingi plus politics equals to drama and corruption
I think there are bus stops in the cbd that are best managed than Githurai 45...reasons,no 14seaters and that's the only reason githu guys have problems once left cbd and githu...the other world is the peoplem
The British should have held on longer
nairobi-sauti sol
Kenyans are peculiar.....rellocate town to githunguri kiambu or wherever ...plenty of space kwani lazima IEEE huko.....sewage burst, no water,no roads etc aiiii
"Matatus madaness is the order of the day"
Title don't match the content!!......
The only solution is to kick out all these buses from cbd and the lost city will reclaim it's glory
City under the dump
Nationalism is ziro in kenya
As long as the Kikuyus have power in Kenya, their cartels will always make Nairobi a big mess. Their cartels will not allow the building of rapid transit nor the operation of government owned buses. Kikuyu street families and hawkers will also never go away.
Wacha ukabila bana
kenyatta left nairobi a paradise in 1978 he was a kikuyu.trace downfall of nairobi from 1978 august 22 to date
@@mura5615 Kenyatta started the tribalism, land grabbing, political assassinations, high level corruption, and cover ups that we are witnessing being used now. BTW your Kikuyu brethren are about to tear down Nairobi hospital with their greed just like all institutions they touch.
Nothing new here. the heading should be "The inefficient Transport system" these story has been told over and over again
back when Corona was not known.. no masks
Matatu culture must end
I hate when people get their education abroad,never come home to better the situation and if at all they come they sit down and start narrating how , Singapore, Europe etc is Soo good but never get their hands and brains to change anything.knowlege without wisdom is a waste.
Nairobi began its journey into a continuous slum when African mayors, your usual suspects of ''teda'', froti, mbiachara took over.
Overpopulation.
Get matatus off the road!!!!
8:34..the journalist has got no socks!!!
See what happens when the white man leaves?
Mwaniki... Go live with whites in their countries leave us Black, Indian, Africans of European ancestry and Arab people alone...
A country ruled by the tano tena and the vifaranga vya kompyuta. Every 5 years ignorant, tribalistic people stream to the polls to elect the most imcompetent tribalist thugs to power then we complain when they are destroying out country.
Ntv guy hana socks lol
When anaingia the camera man house wah
Kenyan Leaders especially those who have been Studying in Diaspora or those who are Visiting Diaspora and coming back to Kenya without any Development ideas. And no one is Planning for the next Generation. Expecting 2 lane Road system which was constructed in 60's to surve all life long. No kenyan Analysis that in 20 year the population will Grow up to surturn level. Steeling and sleeping.
3:55 Late 80s early 90s what a lie look at the cars in those pictures
Kenya ni nchi bure kabisa!
Kama mamako
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Mentuhotep II lamba lolo
@@GamerZz-yk3mf nyonya nyoko nyoko!
So leave a city to the people of Africa and this is what inevitability happens. Same thing in south Africa