The MD at Kenya Railways has just given a 50 year modernization plan for the organization.
The total rail line in Kenya is 2156km in the entire country.
This line was all built within a span of 10 years from 1895 to 1906. Just imagine; building the entire rail line those days, and in so doing, building 2156km within that time frame.
I thought that with better technology, we can do what those Coolies did in a much shorter time. Could this be an admission of incompetence from the KR MD?
Think of 2156km in 50 years.
ie 43.12km per year;
3.59km per month;
0.11km per day.
That is sheer incompetence.
Odhiambo T Oketch
Komarock Nairobi
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Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2008 04:59:42 -0700 (PDT)
From: odhiambo okecth
Subject: Fw: Modernizing Kenya Railways
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WAU, WAU!!!! 50 years is a very long period, most of Kenyans already living today will not see that great adventure. Even some Kenyans born tomorrow might not see the mordernisation of Kenya railways operating in full given the case that an average life expectancy of kenyans today still stands well below 50 years. Infact sometimes I do think that some of our officials still thinks that whites will come back to Kenya to build it for us once again, just as they did during colonial times.
Paul Nyandoto.
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Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2008 20:26:53 +0300
From: Paul Nyandoto
Subject: Vs: Fw: Modernizing Kenya Railways
paul I agree with you but one point i disagreewith is the idea that the whites built the railway for us. Quite the contrary. the railway was built for them. In fact when the railway was built it wasnt with the intent to modernise Kenya at all! The railway was as a way to reach Uganda which was their main target.
Now this railway is more than 100 years old and the cars on it arent any better. They havent been changed in at least the last 50 years! How can this be? Museveni during the swearing in of the new cabinet quiped: ” How can you b expected to compete economically in the modern world without good infrastructure?” its impossible.
The fact that we continue to ignore our roads and railways and still expect to build a strong economy is just a joke. You should see the state of roads in Nyanza. they are in a shocking state of disrepair. Its as if someone came and ploughed the roads!
We need to take seriously the state of roads and railways if this economy is to succeed. But like you saw PNU still insisted on keping the roads ministry even though they will do nothing with it.
God save our country.