City residents to Sakaja: Slow down, we'll pay up when we can, even Kenya has debts

Nairobi Governor Sakaja Johnson during a meeting with sub-county and ward administrators, and the executive team at Charter Hall, on January 22, 2025. [File, Standard].

It was delightful to see calm response from many city dwellers who have defaulted on rent for years, when kanjos descended on their hoods. I understand many have not paid rent for up to ten years and City Hole is owed up to some tidy sums, estimated at Sh200m.

It's not as much as they have stolen, but it in all honesty, it's significant. I won't add that City Hole hasn't maintained those units for a decade, collected garbage or fixed city thoroughfares, otherwise they'd have collected rent in the process.