Sometime in January 2018, behind the buildings that are separated by the IBER Africa power lines in Umoja Innercore, on the ‘no mans land’, there stood a sorry site.
For a party that was founded 15 years ago, and which boasts billions in allocations from the National Government, the Embakasi West Orange Democratic Party (ODM) mabati office was an eye sore.
Passing by it several times, I couldn’t help but feel embarrassed.
Many Umojans that passed by the small half-tarmarked road that starts from the Jasho Pub stage and ends at Umoja 2 market probably saw this contraption.
At the place where garbage is sorted on your way to Umoja 2, on your right hand side stood a big mabati house painted with orange colors and written ODM OFFICE, Chungwa Moja, Maisha Bora.
The fact that the office stood on a place that is illegal to build was an embarrassment.
Furthermore, it stood on a garbage sorting area, and the residents of Umoja 2 Ward that form the bulk of ODM supporters, never enjoyed the services from their office, for it never opened its door even once.
Personally, I never passed by those sides and saw the door opened.
Perhaps this explains why it was slowly taken over by the church that popped up in the same area.
The Church, a Dominion Bible Faith Ministries – Nairobi fenced it off and currently, the building with its colors and graffiti still exists but one has to look keenly though the fence made of vegetation to see it.
How it exchanged hands, nobody knows.
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