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You're a lawyer who handled a case for IEBC or KRA. They owe you 75 million, but you haven't been paid for two years. Meanwhile, someone who supplied tissue paper worth 30 million just last week has already been paid. Frustrated, you confront the CEO or finance manager, only to be told that the Treasury hasn't released your funds. Confused and disheartened, you head to the parking lot, where an intern approaches you. He suggests a way for you to get paid: a kickback of 25 million. Initially, you refuse but take his number anyway.
At home, you discuss the situation with your wife, who laughs at your naivety. The next day, feeling defeated, you call the intern and accept the offer. Within a week, you're in the CEO's office, collecting a 75 million cheque. You're instructed to cash it at KCB University Way and to tell the Branch Manager, 'Mr. XXX sent me.' Surprisingly, the check is immediately cashed, and you leave with 25 million in dollars, against CBK regulations. You meet the intern at a restaurant in Upper Hill, hand over the money, and watch him drive away in a Porsche Cayenne, wondering how an intern could afford such a car. Nevertheless, you're relieved to have the remaining 50 million in your account.
In this country, it seems you have to pay to get what is owed to you. What a circus! You recall a biblical phrase, 'This world is not my place,' realizing that this world belongs to the bandits, liars, and despots. They own it, and they rule it.
Levies: We pay taxes to Government to finance its activities. It's is wrong & a burden to taxpayers to again pay levies & other charges to the state to discharge services to its citizens.
The philosophy behind the establishment of state corporations was that government intended to stabilise prices, keep competition off the production of essential goods and protect certain industries key to economic prosperity of the people. The justification for privatisation should therefore be largely where a corporation gobbles up funds while incurring losses and costing the taxpayer, or where the principle of protection initially envisioned has been overtaken by events. In the case of this government, the underlying desire seems to simply be to have some prime assets changing hands from the government to private hands. The Ruto regime already suffers a deficit of trust within the public. That it has chosen to proceed with something that Kibaki and Uhuru both avoided should be quite telling. What is also telling is that once the people and leaders of the sugar belt rejected the attempt to privatise their sugar factories, the idea was abandoned. What that says is that there is really no economic magic wand to be waved with this privatisation process. 3/3
There are two surprises in the list. The Kenya Literature Bureau, in a competent government, could have been made the premier source of school books, a gigantic market if properly tapped. It has also remained profitable over the years, and cannot be equated to a white elephant. I am surprised it made the list. The other is the iconic KICC, practically the international face of Nairobi. After the Kibaki regime fought so hard to reclaim it from grabbers, you would imagine that any government would fight to keep it as manifestation of the state's desire to show steel against grabbing of public assets. Besides, there is no compelling reason to believe that such premium real asset is the city's most powerful location should fail to make profits.
However, the inclusion of Kenya Pipeline doesn't surprise me. With Kenya's fumbling over its oil business and losing the regional transit market, Kenya Pipeline is headed for collapse as its core business has been eroded. What I don't understand is how a corporation that needs huge capital input in the rolling out of national pipeline infrastructure (which in turn requires a lot of land acquisition, often compulsory within government realm) will achieve this as a private entity. At any rate, if oil imports are government to government deals, KPC will now have to approach the government for the product like any private enterprise, which could make its products expensive in the long run. It's interesting though how the Ruto regime can easily let go of both National Oil Company of Kenya and Kenya Pipeline Company, while jealously guarding the sourcing and importing of oil as a purely government business. Why not privatise the entire chain?
I am not surprised either that KPLC is missing on the list. Being the state corporation with the widest physical reach into Kenya's households, Kenya Power holds the dubious distinction of being the biggest gravy train for corruption lords. Effectively, it is easier to loot as a state corporation because its continued reliance on exchequer funding assures its eaters that the flow of illicit honey isn't ending soon. The absence of the Kenya Broadcasting Corporation on the list is also a Moisque move. Dictators and incompetent leaders dread independent media. A state media house remains something they adore, even if the said media house has to crawl on its knees daily. 2/3
I have gone through the list of eleven state corporations earmarked for privatisation by Ruto’s regime. What catches my eye is that each of them, without exception, was tainted by scandal and looting under Moi. Kenya Pipeline lost land in different places (Ruto was taken to court over this), Kenya Seed Company the same in Kitale (Nathaniel arap Tum had a pile of grabbing cases haunting him) while KCC was their cash cow. Let's not even go to Rivatex and those subsidiaries of the National Irrigation Board. The looting under Moi was shameless.
By privatising them, Kalenjin incompetence is tapping into its historical reservoir to complete what it started under Moi, while also achieving a one-upmanship against Kikuyu entitlement, which had 20 years to sell these corporations to themselves on the cheap but didn't. Soon, many of these corporations will be owned by Dubai-based firms owned by proxy companies registered in tax havens in Jersey or the Caymans. But before they do, they'll be bogged down by the cases revolving around the lands on which the assets of the corporations sit on. The old model of establishment of many of these corporations was that communities donated the land on which they were built. When they exchange hands, the community immediately steps in to demand back its land.
In recent memory, what easily comes to mind is when the Standard Processing Equipment Construction and Erection (known to everyone as Raila's SPECTER) bid for the Kisumu Molasses Plant, and the Kogony Clan of Kisumo had to be part of the negotiations for the land element of th3 deal. In fact, efforts to privatise Miwani Sugar Company hit a snag because the Kano clan of the Luo made it clear it would pick up arms to reclaim the massive nucleus estate of the sugar company, which its ancestors donated to the production plant. Incidentally, it is the land that most regime sharks making these deals actually eye. In the sense that Rivatex may not really return to textile production, but the new owner of the assets will have prime land to do something else with, after buying it cheaply. 1/3
I compiled a few KCPE stats to show you the kind of inconsistencies in the KNEC results that Education Cs Ezekiel Machogu released
Hakuna anything credible about 2023 KCPE
1. St. Mathews Maraba Primary
Look at SSRE column, Top to bottom. Same marks
Someone sent me this direct message to deliver to @RailaOdinga, and @MarthaKarua but l shall simply post it here for @WilliamsRuto to read. After all, this is his job not Raila’s or Karua’s.
Hey Boniface,
The country is facing a climate crisis. Floods are ravaging communities from Nyanza, to Eastern, to the Coast and the Northern frontier counties. It has led to loss of lives and livelihoods yet no concrete action is forthcoming from the government of the Republic of Kenya. President Ruto has been silent on the matter and his Deputy Rigathi clearly lacks the capacity to coordinate relief efforts which I understand is his duty.
As Kenyans experience ravaging El Nino, both are out of the country. Just days ago, the president gave an eloquent speech to the European Union Parliament, touching on the climate crisis and the global financial system. Yet he has said nothing about the current climate crisis facing his own people! The governors have vocally spoken out on the lack of support from the national government.
I feel pain as a Kenyan on how indifferent a government can be. Who will speak up for the women and children displaced from their homes? Families with no food or shelter? What about the impending health crisis as a result? Parliament too is on slumber! By now they should have had an emergency session to provide leadership on the issue. But nothing!
What the hell is happening in this country?
Please hide my identity but share this with Martha Karua and Raila Odinga. They might not be in power but half the voters in the 2022 elections trusted them and they must speak up for us who believed and still believe in their leadership.
Somalia's government suspends TikTok, Telegram, and betting firm 1XBET, arguing that they are used by terrorists and groups that promote immorality in the country https://t.co/YHaJT8psEc
Contrary to what we have been told, SGR was fully funded by Kenyans to the tune of Sh900 billion.
SGR did not cost Sh360 billion, and no money came from China. We want to know why we are “repaying” a loan for which no single cent came to Kenya.
Thank you for passing by @bonifacemwangi 🙏🏾
Let’s all agree that the rule of law should be respected so that the basic structure of our democracy is maintained and further strengthened.
Be anxious for nothing for God is in control.
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Very happy to announce the start of SPECT-CT services at KUTRRH. The equipment can detect renal & heart diseases, spread of cancer to bones & many others
The cost is covered by NHIF and Kenyans are urged to make use of this equipment; previously only available outside the country
1 Peter 2:9
“But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light:”