Greed, negligence and impunity are burying our national culture

Tee Ngugi argues that the collapse of a building in Eastleigh, Nairobi, exposed much older cracks in the national culture, driven by greed, negligence and impunity. These failures fuel the development crisis and what Tom Mboya once called “the challenge of nationhood.” Ngugi points to inflated costs for unnecessary projects, theft from the health insurance fund and Covid funds, widespread poverty, wasteful ceremonies and severe underdevelopment.