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No, politicians are not Africas worst enemies. We all are our own enemies.
Remember the story of the famous Masaai warriors who ran in the London Marathon last year to raise money for a well in their remote village of Eluai, northern Tanzania?
The six warriors made news partly because they ran the marathon in their traditional costume, wearing shoes made from used car-tyres and carrying sticks and shields.
Their goal was to raise £60,000 (Sh7 million).
However, because they captured the imagination of the British public, they raised nearly double that amount £114,000 (Sh13.4 million).
We might as well stop here, because we are sure you know where this story is going. Lets tell it, all the same.
Nearly a year later, Eluai still has no clean water.
According to The Times, the British non-profit organisation, Greenforce, that took up the project, wasted part of the money.
Despite the advice of experts that there was no ground water in the areas it was drilling, it continued throwing money down the hole.
But the real killers were local contractors.
The Times reports that after reading on the Internet that the warriors had raised more money than expected in London, they inflated their prices for working on the water search project.
Remarkable, how our private lives often mirror the horror of our politics.
Soma hapa
No, politicians are not Africas worst enemies. We all are our own enemies.
Remember the story of the famous Masaai warriors who ran in the London Marathon last year to raise money for a well in their remote village of Eluai, northern Tanzania?
The six warriors made news partly because they ran the marathon in their traditional costume, wearing shoes made from used car-tyres and carrying sticks and shields.
Their goal was to raise £60,000 (Sh7 million).
However, because they captured the imagination of the British public, they raised nearly double that amount £114,000 (Sh13.4 million).
We might as well stop here, because we are sure you know where this story is going. Lets tell it, all the same.
Nearly a year later, Eluai still has no clean water.
According to The Times, the British non-profit organisation, Greenforce, that took up the project, wasted part of the money.
Despite the advice of experts that there was no ground water in the areas it was drilling, it continued throwing money down the hole.
But the real killers were local contractors.
The Times reports that after reading on the Internet that the warriors had raised more money than expected in London, they inflated their prices for working on the water search project.
Remarkable, how our private lives often mirror the horror of our politics.
Soma hapa
