WESTERN DONOR AGENCIES WARNS MINISTRIES IN KENYA AGAINST LACK OF PROPER COORDINATION OF THEIR FUNDED PROJECTS, GRAFT AND LACK OF TRANSPARENCY AND ACCOUNTABILITY.

News Analysis By Leo Odera Omolo

LACK of co-ordination among agro-related ministries may soon see Kenya sink deep into perpetual food crisis, donors meeting held in Nairobi has been told.

The donors, mainly Western nations, called for better communications between the Ministries of Agriculture, Livestock Development,Fisheries and Water and irrigation to ensure food production in the country improves this year.

They also asked for more transparency and accountability in the ministries.

“It has been difficult for donors to work,with the ministries- some of them created after the formation of the Grand Coalition government- to increase food production,” they said.

Swedish Ambassador Anna Brandt, who spoke on behalf of the donors, said the reported cases of corruption in maize, seed and fertiliser sectors had also raised concerns on how their funding would be utilised by the four relervant ministries.

Present at the meeting were representatives of Germany,United States, Finland, the Netherlands,European Commission and Japan.

Brandt said although ” progress has been made towards better sector coordination” by the creation of several ministerial committees and a donor groups, more efforts was needed by the donors and the ministries to ensure their priorities do not clash.

She asked the Ministry to urge Non-Governmental Organisations{NGOs} working in the same area toalign their plans with those of the govcernment.

Among the issues cited at the meeting held at the Agriculture Ministry’s headquarters at Kilimo House, Nairobi, was the implkementation of Agenbdas Two and Four,which established the coalition government after the disputed General Elections of 2007.

The tow agendas dwell on immediate measures to address the humanitarian crisis and promote reconciliation and healing as well as long-term issues on land reforms, tackling of youth unemployment and addressing impunity, transparency and accountabiliuty.

European Commision representative Eric van der Linden told the meeting that although the programmes were not well co-ordinated, the relevant ministries shouldwork together to ensure food production invreases.

Kenya’s Minister for Agriculture William Ruto saiod”The stability of the country is dependent on a comprehensive plan to deal with Agenda Four.’

There was also concerns that despite the governent’s commitment to increase the budgetary allocation to at leasy eight per cent of the budget,itmis still remains atless than five per cent.

Kenya is a signatory to the Maputo Declaration of 2004, which stipulates that the allocation to Agriculture should be at least 10 per cent of the country’s annual budget.

The Minister said the government of Kenya is also working on ways to ensure its plans are aligned to those of the donors.

Kenya is cuurently experiencing acute shortage of food grains due to unpredictable weather, prolonged drought.Nomad communities in the sdemi-arid part of the country have lost thousands mof livestopck dur to lack of green pasture and grazing field and water.

Dea ths by starvatioin have also been remoted from the Noprthern parts of the country, Ukambani in Eastern and Kajiado districts min ther South Rift. The dry North Eastern Province has been the worset hit. Traditional maize poroducing regions like Trans-Nzoi, Uasin Gishu, Trans-Mara, Kisii and Migori district, Bungoma and Busia and other places only managed to produce 40 per cent of their annual production, making the country to be a drependant onm food donations and imports from foreign sources.

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Date: Wed, 20 May 2009 02:40:47 -0700 [05/20/2009 04:40:47 AM CDT]
From: Leo Odera Omolo
Subject: WESTERN DONOR AGENCIES WARNS MINISTRIES IN KENYA AGAINST LACK OF PROPER COORDINATION OF THEIR FUNDED PROJECTS, GRAFT AND LACK OF TRANSPARENCY AND ACCOUNTABILITY.

6 thoughts on “WESTERN DONOR AGENCIES WARNS MINISTRIES IN KENYA AGAINST LACK OF PROPER COORDINATION OF THEIR FUNDED PROJECTS, GRAFT AND LACK OF TRANSPARENCY AND ACCOUNTABILITY.

  1. akech

    Kenya is experiencing acute food shortages because corrupt MPs are busy doling out land to foreign corporations to allow them cultivate Kenyan’s land for export to their respective countries of origin for profits while able bodied hard working Kenyans are lingering in filthy slums created for them by these very unpatriotic corrupt Kenya’s elites.

    Instead of giving land to hard working Kenyans to “Rudi Masambani kujenga Kenya” from bottom up, these elites are filling their pockets or receiving lethal arms to terrorize and kill fellow Africans they have condemned to slum dwelling. The bribes are routinely given by the multinational corporations in exchange for doling out Kenya’s land. What the heck!

    The African MPs are the most disgusting unpatiotic human species on planet earth! Why are they so afraid of poor Kenyans while Yoweri Kaguta Museveni and Paul Kagame are hatching a plot to confisticate the land in Kenya and Tanzania to releave the heavily populated Rwanda?

    Why is East African Community now ainstitution when it was not during Idi Amin? Could it be because Yoweri Kaguta Museveni and Paul Kagame of Rwanda are the most effective “ALPHA MALES” for terrorizing their neighbours?

    It is true Amin murdered thousands of Ugandans during his reign of terror. However, what Paul Kagame of Rwanda has done in Democratic Republic of Congo, where 1.5 millions Congolese have perished (thanks to Museveni, Kagame and Laurent Nkunda), will make Idi Amin’s artorocities look like a child play. In any case, the same foreign agents who brought Amin to power before he “went rogue” on them are now working with Paul Kagame, the current chairman of the new East African Community.

    Amin was brought to power while Obote was visiting Communist China. The foreign powers who helped overthrow Obote are now very comfortable with Communist China who is now grabbing millions acres of land in Africa, paricularly in the genocide prone areas in Sudan and Democratic Republic of Congo. Africans are being killed or displaced from their land properties to allow Communist China and the west to cultivate African land to feed their population back home. Poor Africans are murdered or are dragged kicking and screaming to UN World Food Programs feeding camps as if this people are incapable of feeding themselves.

    WAKE UP AFRICANS because you are surrounded by wolves posing in sheeps clothing!!!

  2. DR ODIDA OKUTHE

    DR.MILTON APOLLO OBOTE

    Uganda’s president, Dr. Apollo Milton Obote was overthrown after attacking Britain over her condoning of the Unilateral Declaration of Independence, UDI in Souhern Rhodesia (Zimbabwe) by the British, Ian Smith, an act which was treasonable under the British law. If Ian Smith had been a non-Broton he could have been imprisoned for life.

    This act of ommission or commission by Britain painfully hurt blacks who were dying to be free from imperialism. Dr. Obote paid for it and Uganda is burning till today with Yoweri Museveni keeping Dr. Obote’s tribesmen either in exile or in jmlitary concentration camps in northern Uganda.

    The same month Ian Smith declared UDI a black man declared Anguila, then a British colony, an independent republic and with a knee-jerk reaction the same Britain sent the Royal Airfoce within 4 hours to suppress the rebellion. The action taken by Britain was apparently just in both Zimbabwe and Anguila! History will judge. Smith was a kith and kin to Britain whereas the black man in Anguila, central America, was not.

    Dr. Obote then was attending Commonwealth meeting in Singapore, not China, at the time and had a heated aguement with the Brirtish Prime Minister Harold Wilson over Rhodesia (Zimbabwe) who in a spout of anger told Dr. Obote that he could see army muntiny in Uganda. Within days Dr. Obote was overthrown by Iddi Amin Dada.

    We do not know whether or not the British army permanently stationed in North and South Hore in Kenya took part in the overthrow of Dr. Obote.

    DR. ODIDA OKUTHE.

  3. akech

    Thanks for the correction, DR. Okuthe.

    I just do not understand the rationale behind selling African land while poor Africans, capable of feeding themselves, are being reduced to slums or feeding camps with the help of corrupt African ruling elites. These elites are the beneficiaries of aids being peddled by foreign corporations in exchange for resources such as land.

    There were many silent partners collaborating in the overthrow of Milton Obote. They were all afraid Obote would turn Uganda in to a Socialist republic.

    Despite the fact that most, if not all, of these former British colonies have never been influenced by any socialist colonizers, slum dwellings, despicable poverty, under-development (no proper roads, hospitals or water treatment in major towns) have expanded exponentially. The “former colonies” are practically still under the British Commonwealth where the Queen of England still calls all the shots in all countries under her “common wealth”.

    The former colonial land owners still own the pieces of large farms and do not adhere to laws of the republics in which they dwell. The ruling African elites are still incapable of protecting Africans they pretend to be governing! Land deals signed by unprepared African assuming the power from the colonial masters on the eves of independence left nasty land powers with the colonizers, sometimes for a century!

  4. David T. Msimbe

    Greetings in the Powerful name of Jesus Christ ,

    It is my hope your well and you continue better with God’s work. Also we are together spiritually and freshly. We continue better with God’s work.

    I ‘m pastor David Thomas Msimbe and my wife Georgina we are Founders & Directors of a church of Great Vision Pentecostal and Ministry of People Shipping Centre (by leadership of the holly spirit) since 2003 we started this work of God and now we have seven years in the ministry , but now is already registered by country laws.

    Our registration number is so. 14120. Also we have no permanent place
    for worshiping God. We have some place we pay for every month.

    The purpose of this letter to you servant of God is to need friendship (please read the book of Malachi 2:7) So that to be have benefit together in the body of Christ and God’s work continue forward means all we are unity in body of Christ(1 Corinthians 12:7,12-27) I and My church and I we need Contacts So that we need saving God with you together
    .
    Thank you for your cooperation between you and our ministry.

    We expect you to give us your program and ways how to to do the work of God, And if possible to send kinds of spiritually books and tracts for evangelism. Also we need financial support for church and ministry expenses. We also live with two orphans we give them all basic needs including education.

    So that the work of God can continue well and growth because I know our country is peacefully Greet all believers in the name of the Lord (1 Thess 5:26) first of all we need your prayers.

    You are most welcome to Arusha Tanzania in East Africa

    Have a blessed day

    Senior Pastor David Thomas Msimbe

    Founder & Director

    GVPC & MPSC

    P.O Box 13437 Arusha-Tanzania

    Tel:+255 754 22 84 77
    +255 755 56 54 73

    +255 787 14 78 33

  5. David T. Msimbe

    Greetings in the Powerful name of Jesus Christ ,

    It is my hope your well and you continue better with God’s work. Also we are together spiritually and freshly. We continue better with God’s work.

    I ‘m pastor David Thomas Msimbe and my wife Georgina we are Founders & Directors of a church of Great Vision Pentecostal and Ministry of People Shipping Centre (by leadership of the holly spirit) since 2003 we started this work of God and now we have seven years in the ministry , but now is already registered by country laws.

    Our registration number is so. 14120. Also we have no permanent place
    for worshiping God. We have some place we pay for every month.

    The purpose of this letter to you servant of God is to need friendship (please read the book of Malachi 2:7) So that to be have benefit together in the body of Christ and God’s work continue forward means all we are unity in body of Christ(1 Corinthians 12:7,12-27) I and My church and I we need Contacts So that we need saving God with you together
    .
    Thank you for your cooperation between you and our ministry.

    We expect you to give us your program and ways how to to do the work of God, And if possible to send kinds of spiritually books and tracts for evangelism. Also we need financial support for church and ministry expenses. We also live with two orphans we give them all basic needs including education.

    So that the work of God can continue well and growth because I know our country is peacefully Greet all believers in the name of the Lord (1 Thess 5:26) first of all we need your prayers.

    You are most welcome to Arusha Tanzania in East Africa

    Have a blessed day

    Senior Pastor David Thomas Msimbe

    Founder & Director

    GVPC & MPSC

    P.O Box 13437 Arusha-Tanzania

    Tel:+255 754 22 84 77
    +255 755 56 54 73

    +255 787 14 78 33

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  6. Pastor farukh Samuel

    Beloved in Christ
    Accepting Greetings in the name of most high God who cares for mankind regardless of sinner’s .I am Rev Farukh Samuel serving lord as a Chairman in Sons of god church and ministries Pakistan. We are working to restore the mankind to God in one of the ministry project which is designed to develop the Christian community in the region .The condition of the Christian in our area is not very Good you can say it the worst condition .We being servants of God are striving to restore the grace of the great Christian nation.
    Our Story in brief:
    Now a day in the busiest life we have lost our real identification by getting into the sect battle like as Catholic, Protestant, and Salvation Army etc. Our poor Christians people are embracing other religion like as Islam in a great number that is the biggest bad affect of this battle. There is another biggest reason of embracing Islam is that our people think that it increases the opportunity of getting jobs and higher education .we have started a mission by taken these problems in consideration. Which have purpose to save Christianity? we are for working them our self.( For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you invited me in, I needed clothes and you clothed me, I was sick and you looked after me, I was in prison and you came to visit me)
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