[kictanet] Goodyear to pay Sh1 billion for bribery in Kenya and Angola - News - nation.co.ke

[Peter Wakaba]

That being said, Army expenditure remains a closely guarded govt secret.

This tires saga is a milk cow for an MP's committee being fattened for its
day in front of cameras..



*Every morning in Africa, a gazelle wakes up, It knows it must run faster
than the fastest lion or it will be killed. Every morning a lion wakes up,
it knows it must outrun the slowest gazelle or it will starve to death. It
doesn't matter whether you are a gazelle or a lion. When the sun comes up,
you better start running. - In "The World is Flat" by Thomas L. Friedman.*

On Sun, Mar 1, 2015 at 1:18 PM, Dennis Kioko via kictanet <
kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:

> Mwendwa, a more modern saying states that a nation will vote for leaders
> that represent the majority, hence a nation of average people vote for
> average leaders.
>
> A reminder that our education system remains broken, with only a few
> benefitting from actual primary and high school education.
>
> Many barely get through with some education, and about 200,000 of 800,000
> - 1,000,000 are lost after KCPE (and poor Free Primary Education) to lack
> of High School slots.
>
> It doesn't help the poor appreciate shiny projects and cash handouts than
> High Schools and Hospitals, whose benefits aren't apparent in the short
> term.
>
> As for activists, the founder of the Institute of Economic Affairs, and
> the author of the Road to Serfdorm, wanted to fix politics by becoming a
> politician.
>
> A university professor convinced him that that wouldn't work, and his best
> short was from outside parliament.
>
> If he joined politics, he would behave like the average politician(happens
> in most countries). Proof locally is that despite many brilliant lawyers
> being Kenyan MPs, parliament still passes laws that contravene the
> Constitution and other laws.
>
> So, the chap I'm referring to ended up forming the Institute of Economic
> Affairs, a think tank that is credited with shaping Margaret Thatcher.
>
> If it weren't for Thatcher, Britain would not be the economic giant it is
> today. Having not suffered much from wars and recession, unlike Germany
> which is now Europe's largest economy, most lobbies and cartels had
> remained intact through the years, and were broken down by Thatcherism.
>
> Countries rarely transform without massive shocks, like Kenya's post
> election violence and a new constitution that promotes technocratic state
> institutions rather than state institutions revolving around a powerful
> presidency ( who is under political pressure to tamper with state
> institutions).
>
> Lobbies, Cartel, oligopolies and Unions cost a country much by encouraging
> a status quo of inefficiencies ( see taxi lobbies/unions vs Uber/other taxi
> apps).
>
> Thus, to cut a long story short, the best shot for civil society remains
> outside government. They should leave politicking to politicians.
>
> Secondly, Kenya badly needs to fix the gaps in "K1 - K12" education,
> otherwise the less educated will pull us down. More education means higher
> incomes which means more spenders which means larger economy.
>
> On Sun, 1 Mar 2015 12:39 Mwendwa Kivuva via kictanet <
> kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:
>
>> There is an old saying " the people get the leaders they deserve". We
>> tolerate a lot of mediocrity.  At the same time the corrupt in leadership
>> are a reflection of the entire society. In 2002, we had a huge number of
>> civil society activists join government in very senior positions. After a
>> years in power, we could not differentiate them from the Moi era
>> cleptomaniacs.
>>
>> There is no silver bullet out there, unless we change personal ethics we
>> espouse.
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