| Updated Sun, April 23rd 2017 at 11:23 GMT +3The filthy water below the Nyayo monument. [Jenipher Wachie, Standard]Nairobi is increasingly becoming a city of monuments of shame and by extension, wasted public resources. Only the Jomo Kenyatta monuments outside KICC and Parliament Buildings exhibit a semblance of care from city authorities. The scenario is repeated in cities and towns across the country where smaller but equally extravagant Nyayo monuments built at the same time with the Central Park one are decaying under the skies unattended. Kimathi, who embodied the Mau Mau resistance, sacrifice and commitment to ideals of nationalism, is portrayed drably dressed in military fatigues, holding a rifle in the right hand and a dagger in the left.

Source: Standard Digital April 23, 2017 08:15 UTC