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What do you mean by expensive? Sleeves za 1KD hapo kwa kalasinga ni 14.5k, Piston rings (TK) ni 16k. Pistons mpya za 1KZ ni 48k, sleeves 10k, rings (TK) 12k.

Dudes have all manner of allowances. They won't feel the pinch. We have lawmakers who make laws they don't expect to live under.

Listened to this on BBC Radio last week. Sad state of affairs.

To my very idealistic mind, I'd say the first step should be to delink it from OP.

Many prefer to live their lives vicariously thru others. Social media made that much easier.

Policing stupidity ni ngumu. Sth similar happened around Makuyu area some time in Feb. Cops gave up and left. Jam ilifunguka kitu 8hrs later after watu walijipanga wenyewe.

Retired civil servants bado wanaambiwa hamna pesa. 😞

Cars are still viewed as luxuries.

Hapo sijui. But the spread of diseases has been used to exterminate and subjugate entire populations. The Maasai suffered immensely coz of that.

Until we vaccinate sth like 70% of our adult population, huu ndio utakuwa mtindo.

Despite all appearances and attempts at modernity, it still is very much a colonial organization. Sadly.

Canadian jungus once did that, as recently as the '60s. One's gotta wonder, though, how a people living on their own land and peacefully going on with their lives can be misconstrued to be a 'problem'. Yenyewe the white man is an entitled piece of sh*t.

On slave trade, we aren't entirely blameless. On the eastern africa coast, Arab slave traders regularly conducted slave raids and captured men and women for sale/ use as slaves. I recall reading how some local communities had developed an elaborate warning system for that. Elsewhere however...

Thing is, GoK never conducts exit interviews. If they did they'd be shocked. Pay is almost always never the main reason. It's the small things, the small madharaus that make many leave. Kuna mhenga alisema there are no little things...little things are the hinges of the world.

Most often, the lower mileage will be on a newer car. Not always but mostly. Over here, the newer the car the higher the taxation. One way I advise fellows to keep their costs manageable is pay attention to rebadged models e.g. Toyota Dyna/ Hino Dutro, Nissan Vanette/ Mazda Bongo/ Mitsubishi...

Umesahau Sienta.

Nimeona ameweka hii dilemma: For those of you flossing utopian righteous indignation, pause virtue signalling a moment and imagine @WilliamsRuto as president, with BBI enhanced presidential powers, emasculated judiciary, control of DPP, EACC and DCI going after his political enemies.

Here's that Bujumbura story. https://www.africanews.com/2021/05/02/burundi-floods-from-rising-lake-tanganyika-affect-8000-families/ https://africafreedomnetwork.com/burundi-thousands-affected-by-rising-lake-waters/

Aha. What caught my eye is the public infrastructure (roads, schools, hospitals etc) now under water. Years ago when a close relative worked as a GoK engineer under MoPW he used to regale me with tales of how, when designing roads and bridges for instance, they'd seek out the oldest wazees in...