It is sad that even when doing roadworks, our government cannot engage professionala to figure out ways to preserve the environment. They just cut down everything in their path. We saw it in Kilelwshwa, on Ngong Road and most recently, Waiyaki Way.
I was busy mourning the death of a view I had grown up seeing along Waiyaki way when I received a notice, from S.S Mehta of all the darndest things, that the 6 trees I personally planted outside my compound a few years ago to frame my kayava fence would be cut down to make room for a road. Why does the government even include the extra reserved land (note that this isn't the road reserve) if they will just come and fuck with it later? It is genuinely distressing to some of us when we have to watch the destruction of a tree or plant of any sort to which we have a personal attachment because more often than not, we associate them with fond memories of loved ones and moments.
You try to ask them to construct their pavement around the trees so it looks like the pavements opposite Nyayo Stadium or Jivanjee and they tell you that the trees just have to go. I mean, "it's just a stupid tree".
Nimeshoka. I hate these people and their stupid laws and procedures. I goddamn hate this country even!
