Folks, irony is that people are blaming IMF and World Bank for no reason yet they were giving high fives for promises for stadiums, tablets for school kids and last mile connections to nowhere.
The mad spending sprees that GoK went on since 2013 was pure bread and circuses policy of throwing money at problems and acting as if it's a benevolent parent with unlimited money
And GoK even gave as the #SGR train to the coast which cannot pay for itself but will work as a long ride through an amusement park now.
So let Kenyans be adult for once and accept that we have not been victims of so-called Bretton Woods but cheered government as it bough useless stuff using that "platinum credit card" while it was on a day labourer's wages.
Add to this the fact that most of #Eurobond cash disappeared as if knocked by a magician's wand and the responsible people were mad with the @OAG_Kenya for going in search of it
So spare me all that hand wringing and name-calling of IMF and WB and sit back, open your wallets and let KRA collect enough cash so our debts are repaid.
So those "posh & serious" Kenyans who thought that public engagement in policy processes was activism will know that there is hardly enough to stop profligacy and theft.
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After parliamentary group caucuses yesterday, it appears MPs will pass the amendments proposed by the executive and load more taxes on Kenyans.
The problem is MPs think this is a one time tax raise to fix things this year but we are on the debt treadmill so next year they will have to feed the Leviathan again.
They have set in motion the definite grind towards a shock and the only thing we shall recall is that it's bipartisan and shared responsibility by executive and parliament.
The narrative in Kenya has changed to the claim that this administration is incompetent because we lack a strong opposition. Folks, do we ever listen to ourselves talk?
Kenyans, we must not deceive ourselves. We are in a problem that requires sound knowledge of the modern economy and how it works. Competent economists must have a voice or you just see the worst economic management entrenched.
Party supporters behaving like the driver who was employed, drives recklessly, causes a crash & upon being confronted for incompetence reacts by stating that I beat the other guy at the interviews so he could not have driven this bus any safer.
Folks, I look at all national papers covering this VAT on fuel news and think it's nothing but "Manufactured rage".
The reason I call this manufactured rage is that the time to have expressed this rage was four years ago when public sounding started rising by 200-300 billion every year, with parliament's approval
So all this handwriting going and rolling in the ashes is theatre for those who don't pay attention.
Folks, I hate to give stick to the Kenya press corps but coverage of incident I which an MP was arrested for Treasury Bill fraud is not being explored.
This implies that someone found unauthorized ways to add to the total public debt.
And with a total debt stock of upwards of $40 billion, I shudder that even if this mischief affects only 1% of the total, then some people have become wealthy through manipulation of debt data.