Just back from two weeks spent communing with wildebeest in the Maasai Mara. And what should await? More mission statements, this time at the Yaya Center shopping mall (which, if it were ever fortunate enough to be the subject of a journalistic profile, would inevitably be described as "gleaming" and "bustling").
Yaya has a nice motto (Y Go Anywhere Else?). And now it is the proud owner of mission and vision statements, which have been hung up on large banners in Yaya's atrium. I don't know which comes first, the mission statement or the vision statement, but see below for photographic evidence.
I am not sure how I am given a great experience that adds value to my life when I buy a loaf of bread at the supermarket in Yaya. And I am still trying to figure out what it means to create a place of choice for your customers, your tenants and your people. But there you have it.
Not photographed are several other banners informing customers that Yaya's values consist of integrity and good service.
Speaking of which, Yaya is owned by Nicholas Biwott, a Kenyan politician who has been barred from entering the United States and Britain because of corruption allegations. Biwott, one of Kenya's wealthiest men, has been linked to several major corruption scandals in recent years. Scotland Yard called him a "person of interest" in the assassination of Foreign Minister Robert Ouko in 1990. Yaya is believed to be named after Biwott's daughter.