They want to spend KSh 375 BILLION expanding JKIA.
That's enough money to build an entire new international airport from scratch.
For context: China built the massive Guangzhou Baiyun International Airport for just KSh 285 Billion.
This is your money. Demand better.
William Ruto was elected to punish Kenyan voters for electing bad leaders.
He's not in office to bring development but to show Kenyans what incompetent, clueless & corrupt president can do when given an opportunity to lead.
The “African Client” used taxpayers money to buy himself an aircraft and appoint ACASS to manage it.
He then has the government lease the aircraft for his use during his sightseeing trips abroad.
While overtaxing his people without mercy.
Hustler Jeuri, Sharp Boy Número uno!
Has it occurred to the gorvement that maybe students are panicking, because they are watching their eder brothers and sisters who have already graduated still struggling at home . Could it be that they are losing hope and we all know hope is a dangerous thing to loose .
Macron, cut the crap!!!
Africa attracted 97 billion dollars in foreign direct investment last year alone according to UNCTAD, without a summit and without you.
Your “23 billion euros”, spread over an unspecified number of years, are mostly private sector pledges the French state will take diplomatic credit for without financing. And of those 23 billion, 10.5 billion are from African businesses themselves.
Since you want to talk about investment, here is the context you deliberately omitted. Your French companies have been extracting wealth on this continent for decades and make annual returns that dwarf these your 27 billion euros. TotalEnergies alone produces 28% of its global output from Africa. Orange operates across 18 African countries with over 120 million customers. Bolloré at its peak controlled 18 of West Africa's 22 major ports, with 80% of its profits derived from Africa. Orano has been mining uranium in Niger for decades at prices below OECD market rates, leaving behind 20 million tonnes of radioactive waste and uranium concentrations in local drinking water 500 times above safe thresholds. France's development loans from the Agence Française de Développement came with contractual conditions requiring freight to use Bolloré railways, insurance through AXA, and consulting through French firms. The money went from France to Africa and immediately circled back as corporate profit.
Let's have a clear look at Africa's market size and economy. Telecommunications generates 180 billion dollars annually, mining oil and gas generations over 900 billion annually. Financial services, construction, manufacturing, tourism, retail and energy collectively add hundreds of billions more, bringing Africa's total nominal GDP to approximately 2.83 trillion dollars. And then there is the creative industry. Africa's creative economy generates between 6 and 10 billion dollars in directly measurable annual revenue today. This industry was built without a single French summit, without a single French pledge, and without your presence in Nairobi.
The idea that 27 billion dollars over an unspecified period, of which 10.5 billion are Africa companies’ money you are announcing as an achievement, constitutes something worth celebrating tells us everything about how you see this continent. You genuinely believe we will applaud you for this. You really summoned 30 heads of states over some so called 27 billion euros “investment pledge” over multiple years. You see, that is the particular variety of condescension that caused your military to be expelled from Niger, Mali and Burkina Faso.
And since we are being factual: the CFA franc, created on December 25, 1945, has required fourteen of our nations to deposit a portion of their foreign exchange reserves in the French Treasury for eighty years. Kindly return our reserves if you so care about our economic growth. Return the gold. Return the uranium profits extracted from Niger at below-market rates while leaving radioactive contamination in the water. Return the port revenues confiscated by Bollore. Return the decades of oil profits extracted by Total through preferential agreements with the corrupt leaders your government installed and continue to protect.
When you have returned all of that, then come back with your 23 billion euros and we will discuss whether it qualifies as a contribution. Until then, please shut up !