Since the 15th of April, somebody with our water company decided to cut down a very old Khungu tree just outside our (Umoja Estate), fence.
Why? So that our water company can put down water pipes for the complainant/s as they don't get water. All this is fine and they even got a permit to chop down the tree.
The cutting down started on the 15th, but my question is - how long does it take to cut a single tree? It seems, many, many days! Those of us who live right next to this ex-tree, now probably going to be firewood, have to put up with the terrible noise of the chainsaw used in chopping it up. It goes on for hours on end. We cannot talk, have a phone conversation, etc., without having to shout to be heard and are now getting very, very FED UP with the awful noise!
They were working even on a Sunday till nearly 6.00 pm. I tried calling our County control room where I was assured that someone was being sent out to deal with the situation, hours later when the noise persisted, I called again and was told that their vehicle was out and would come here when finished with whatever it was doing.
The long and the short of it all has been that our redoubtable County officialdom just gives us these numbers to call with over-polite people answering at the other end who make us feel that something will be done, but nothing really is!
Since I happen to be a member of the North Coase Rate-payers and Residents Association, I asked them for help and our office assistant immediately tried getting the help of the County Environment office who assured him that they would pay a visit the next day. Of course, nothing happened and to date, nothing has.
Now, my question to our various officials is this... Do they really work? And that too in a timely manner so that they are not too late. For example, in this case, it seems that they delay doing anything as they are waiting for the issue to pass them by and when they eventually do make their way to the offending place, everything will be over and the complainant will be told that they could not find anything going on...!
So, my question remains - how long does it take to chop up a single tree?
Most of the postings are to do with what an average Kenyan citizen has to deal with, in the country, to survive. They go through and are treated with a lot of injustice, where very few in 'officialdom', will take notice of their problems or even do anything about them. Hence, this blog and the belief in, 'One learned man is harder on the devil than a thousand ignorant worshipers' - Prophet Muhammad (pbuh)
