Face Masks and Water Shortage in Nairobi.

Wearing of Masks in public – As per the Kenya Census 2019 report, Nairobi county population is currently at 4,397,073 and that of the neighboring county of Kiambu is 2,417,735 which totals to 6,814,808 people (https://www.knbs.or.ke/?wpdmpro=2019-kenya-population-and-housing-census-volume-i-population-by-county-and-sub-county). Assuming that each of the above people put on a non-re-usable mask every day, in a month it would translate to (6,814,808*Kshs. 50 per mask*30 days in a month), this translates to Kshs. 10,222,212,000.00 per month. To achieve this, the government through MoH ensured that there is a directive that everyone needs to have a face mask anytime you are in public, and thus this was “Forced demand” that was able to trigger the “supply” side of the market equilibrium. The government knows very well that the Kenyan population is quite responsive to threats and directives and especially the ones that are directly being implemented by the Kenyan Police. This is a lucrative business opportunity that anyone would want to control.

2.    Water Shortage in Nairobi County: The Nairobi County water demand is 760,000 cubic meters per day, which translates to (760,000*1,000 its/cubic metre)= 760,000,000 Liters of water per day (https://www.standardmedia.co.ke/article/2001301214/kenya-needs-policy-to-reduce-water-consumption-in-households).  The current price of water per 20 Liter container in Nairobi and its environs is between Kshs. 10 and Kshs. 50, which is an average of Kshs. 30 per 20 Ltrs container, this translates to Kshs. 0.67 per liter of water. It therefore translates to (Kshs 0.67*760,000,000 liters of water per day) = Kshs. 509,200,000 worth of water per day in Nairobi county. This is clearly a lucrative business that anyone would want to tap into and the more reason why nobody would be in a hurry to fix, if there are any, breakages within the water supply system to Nairobi County and its environs.


BrBrian Kavuwa

bkbkavuwa blogs

    briventures@gmail.com.



Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

The 8:00 am - 5:00 pm Office Time Myth Post-Covid-19!

Image
Brief History of 8:00 am – 5:00 working Time. During the Industrial Revolution, companies attempted to maximize the output of their factories by keeping them running as many hours as possible, typically implementing a “sun up to sun down” work day.  Wages were also extremely low, so workers themselves often needed to work these long shifts just to get by, including often sending their children to work in the factories as well, rather than getting them educated.  With little representation, education, or options, factory workers also tended to work in horrible working conditions to go along with the bad hours.  The typical work day at this time lasted anywhere from 10-18 hours per day, six days a week.  This all began to change in the 19th century. The first to suggest an eight hour work day for everyone was a British man by the name of Robert Owen, who was also one of the founders of socialism.  Owen felt that the work day should be divided into thirds, ...
Read more

THE PROPOSED FREE SCHOOL MILK! HOW SUSTAINABLE IS IT?

Image
A Senate Bill proposes all pupils be given free milk at school to improve their nutrition. The free school milk programme, Maziwa ya Nyayo, was introduced by President Daniel Moi in the 1980s. The Basic Education (Amendment) Bill, 2020 sponsored by nominated Senator Beatrice Kwamboka (ODM) proposes re-introduction of free supply of milk to all pupils and pre-primary learners. The Bill comes at a time when the government-funded school feeding programme has run into trouble due to a Sh500 million budget cut and the exit of the big donor, the World Food Programme [1] . When these proposals are put forward, the proposers never break down the details (numbers) of the bill and the public never get to ask what exactly this bill translates to financially. It is high time we Kenyans get to interact with what our so called Leaders proposals, because eventually there will be a direct impact on the country’s spending which is our taxes. A s at 2018, KNBS reported that there were 8,700,000 pri...
Read more

De-Mystifying HELB-nomics.

Image
  On average, a Kenyan would spend approximately 4 years in the University to complete and graduate an undergraduate course. Higher Education Loans Board (HELB) provides student loans to University students to a tune of Kshs. 200,000, translating to Kshs. 50,000 p.a. By 2019, a total of 125,746 students were set to join different universities in Kenya. Assuming that each of these students received Kshs. 200,000 for the 4 year study period, it will be a whooping Kshs . 25.2B. Our Kenyan education system has for a long time been one that is pre-designed to churn out “job seekers” rather than “job creators” resulting to a ballooning populace of Kenyans supposedly with degrees. The Kenyan Economic survey, 2019-KNBS, indicated that 83.6% ( Kenya’s informal sector employs nearly  15 million  Kenyans, according to 2018 estimates, compared to the  2.9 million  who work in the formal sector. These 15 million Kenyans are the domestic workers, cleaners, beauticians, mec...
Read more