The Hoima City Stadium is being constructed by President Museveni in Hoima City.
The city already has a modern international airport almost the size of Kisumu International Airport.
Hoima has a 268 bed capacity referral hospital too.
It will surprise you to note that Hoima is the 8th largest ‘city’ in Uganda, both by size and population. Eighth.
The antebellum capital of Bunyoro Kingdom, Hoima’s population is just a little over 150,000 people.
Such a project in Kenya cannot be built on an 8th largest city. In Kenya, the centrist planners who still dominate Nairobi do not have grand dreams about our country.
In the last 20 years there has been absolute mediocrity among the class that designs public projects in Kenya. First is the over concentration of national development in Nairobi and its environs.
Nakuru City, for example, should by now have a very grand stadium, but visit Nakuru’s biggest stadium, Afraha Stadium; it’s a cowshed!
Policymakers in Kenya must start dreaming big. Mediocrity and small-mindedness should end in the civil service.
If we are building affordable houses, let us build grand things. Buildings that will stand as enduring testaments to a generation’s resolve to move Kenya forward.
It took the country 30 years to outbuild Arap Moi’s Kasarani Stadium. When completed, the Talanta Stadium will dwarf Kasarani. It must not take another 30years to outbuild Ruto’s Talanta.
I skip Kibaki and Uhuru eras as those were nationally wasted years. The years the locusts ate. When the nation looks back at Kibaki and Uhuru era; they will be stunned at the level of mediocrity in hindsight. Never before has so few taken so much from so many.
The person who wants to lead Kenya must look around the region and outbuild the region. Kenya must be the most modern, the most advanced and the most FREE.
Recently President Ruto said Kenya moved two places up in the top economies of Africa, now placed at sixth, from eighth. Whoever takes over from Ruto must race to the fifth, or fourth. Rapid economic development. High standards of human living. Loud noises for more, each day.
President Museveni also recently launched the construction of Bunyoro University in Hoima, which will add to the city’s grand redevelopment. The discovery of oil in nearby Lake Albert thrust Hoima into infrastructure improvement craze.
We must constantly remember the world around us is developing. Raila Odinga recently warned against complacency, urging the country to build up, particularly its aviation infrastructure.
Congratulations Old Mzee. Uganda is Kenya’s top trading partner. A modernizing Uganda presents better returns for Kenya. Also, East Africa Federation should be of modern, developed nations, not a mishmash of backwardness and modernity, darkness and light.
