Friday, May 27, 2011

Living Large as A King

This story has ran in the media for the last couple of days and has got heads turning.
So the 'youthful' MP Joshua Kuttuny, in his characteristic Swahili Lingua stands in Parliament and claims The PM Agwambo Rao has been spending lots of kenyan taxpayers money on his trips abroad, citing the recent US one. Well, apparently 7,000 USD was spent per night ehhh that tranlsates to a whooping 602,000( Imagine how that cost a week could help the IDP's) I digress. Now, Rao responded of course saying a Kenyan PM cannot spend at some lodging in New York River road( Is there river roadian lodges there kwanza?. You see something is wrong with the African politics if it is not corruption, its some pot bellied President hanging onto power as a flea. We need to have a leadership change for heavens sake. I have no problem with the PM living lavishly, he is entitled to it, he hassled to where he is currently. My problem was when KM went on his shuttle 'air' diplomacy all the way to NYC to beg UN to defer the cases back to Kenya. As you well know, the deal went madly sour, as in the guy didnt come back with even a fruit to Kenya. Here we are people suffering from hunger to lack of homes and yet billions spent lavishly.Oh, by the way did I mention that as you sit to watch the Budget 2011, if you will that 145 million will be returned back to the treasury as unspent from the govt ministries?....Yes we are charitable like that...

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  1. I wonder how seriously a Donor or Financier would take you when you claim to be in need but are living large in a posh joint whether uptown or downtown... I suspect they would worry about how or whether their grant or loan would be put to profitable national gain... But then again, maybe I am just an economic accountant...

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