Because of graft, Nairobi fires will continue to burn with fury

Keep the fire burning. If ever there was a city that misunderstands and lives up to that Old Testament message, then it is Nairobi, whose nickname should change from the Green City in the Sun to the Fiery City in the Inferno because Nairobians always want to keep the fire burning.

Recently, there was a fire, nay, another fire, at Gikomba, and Kenya’s online pyrologists, fire ecologists and realtors concluded it was an act of arson instructed by someone with a burning desire to grab the land the market sits on. They might as well have been right!