Date: Tue, 12 May 2009 07:48:02 -0700 [09:48:02 AM CDT]
From: otieno sungu
Subject: Kenyans must reject 33 billion from the World Bank!!
Going by the report of the World bank that Kenyas poor will become even poorer, and the bank then goes ahead to offer Ksh. 33 billion loan or grant or whatever it was to a Finance Minister who was at the same time shrugging off Ksh 9.2 billion attempted fraud as a small computer error is to say the least, fraud on the Kenyan people by both the World Bank and a clique in Government.
It is now evident that our very worst enemies are two, our own government and International Donors who have conspired to keep the 3rd world countries poor in an arrangement of “scratch my back I scratch yours”.
How else can the World Bank argue International Best Practices that they preach all over the world when a Financce Minister sits with a World Bank represantative nodding knowingly as the Finance Minister explains Ksh 9.2 Billion fraud in over 211 entries in the Supplementary Budget as a small error?
What credibility does this bring to the officials of the World Bank? How on earth are they certain the Ksh. 33 Billion will be “budgeted” appropriately by a Finance Minister who cannot estimate Ksh 9.2 Billion correctly?
The World Bank is therefore becoming part of a bigger scam to rip of poor africans and third world countries in cohorts with their very own governments. The Bank then, to justify its lending and to “scare” the poor people of Kenya, “projects” that poverty is bound to rise and the poor becoming even “poorer”.
This is a smoke screen to lull the population into seeing the “benevolence and filanthropy” of the World Bank in the face of the “grim situation” brewing.
I submit that the World bank should not cheat poor Kenyans out of their taxes to promote the theft that they have perfected with governments across the world where the poor nations are made to pay for “loans and grants” from rich nations which in essence is a shylock type business that they have perfected, breaking the back of Africa to sustain the rich nations.
Kenya did without loans from the World Bank between 2003-2007 and was basically sustaining it’s own budget from tax payers. Going by the Ksh 9.2 billion that was factored in which was way above the supplemetary budgets, it implies a good forensic audit would reveal even more figures that could be saved to plug the deficits we face.
Our problems are not money, that we have in plenty that even Ksh 9.2 billion can be explained by a Finance Minister as a small matter, the real problem is the several avenues of pilfering the same, Kenya does not need the Ksh 33 billion from the World Bank, what Kenya needs is to plug the holes where our own taxes go through. But with the government and the World bank in the gravy train, who will save Africa?
Otieno Sungu.
Juba-Southern Sudan.
Kenya poor to become poorer; World Bank 12th May 2009
In their latest report, the World Bank has come up with a report that the poor in Kenya are going to become poorer. This is alarming coming as it comes when we have a wobbling leadership in Kenya amidst chains of financial scandals.
As the World Bank was releasing this report, they were giving Hon Uhuru Kenyatta some Kshs 33 billion just as Uhuru’s hand was still in the till pilfering Kshs 9.2 billion. It makes one to wonder how serious institutions like the World Bank are with issues of corruption, bad governance and impunity.
The World Bank acted in bad faith. How do you give someone more money when he has just been caught with his pants down? And the pants are still down?
It makes some of us to ask; where is the evidence of the Kshs 1 trillion that Kenya has borrowed in the last 46 years? Why have the World Bank and all Donor agencies kept giving Kenya more money when we cannot justify what we have been given before? And how can the World Bank give Uhuru Kshs 33 billion at a time questions are being raised about his competence at the crucial ministry of Finance? He is yet to convince the country about his intentions with Kshs 9.2 billion that was adjusted into the budgetary estimates.
This was pure theft, the intentions were all clear.
I bet time has come for Kenyans to scrutinize the intentions of Donors who keep giving money to our thieving government officials. Just in the recent past, we have had financial scandals at Kenya Airports Authority and instead of the MD being sent packing; he was given a new mandate.
At the Kenya Pipeline Company Ltd and Kenya Tourism Board, the MDs have been sent home and taken to court. But we are seeing selective justice here and nobody is questioning that. They are being used as smokescreen to convince gullible Donors that the government is doing something about corruption. As the government engages Mr. George Okungu, Mr. Achieng Ongong’a and Ms Rebeca Nabutola in their Public Relations, mega scandals go unabated in institutions headed by home boys.
Is it not time the Donor Community asked Kenya; show us what you have done with the Kshs 1 Trillion that you have borrowed since Independence.
By giving Kenya more money amidst scandal after scandal, it means the Donor Community could be abetting corruption at the top level as they give a clean bill of health to the bad governance and ineptness that we experience.
In the same intervening period since Independence, Kenya has been given Grants; money given to you for free! If we combine the Grants and the Loans that we have borrowed, surely, can we still be this badly off?
The bottom line is clear; the loans that we have borrowed as a country and the grants that we have been given have been eaten by the government officials in connivance with the same Donors.
That is why they keep giving us more money.
Odhiambo T Oketch,
Komarock Nairobi.