Why Treasury has provided astute leadership over Anglo Leasing saga

The Treasury has confirmed wiring Sh1.4 billion to Anglo Leasing this week, the phantom outfit that has, to use the clichéd expression, traversed this land like the colossus over the past decade. Presumably, the matter will now be put to rest.

But some will hear none of it, especially the Opposition politicians who grilled Finance PS over the matter.

If we didn’t have fellow citizens starving in Baringo and so in urgent need of assistance, it would have been possible to appreciate the hilarity of the Anglo Leasing saga.

Our law-abiding Prezzo said he was paying because he didn’t want any backlash over non-payment of the Anglo Leasing contracts, most of which we now know involved the delivery of mahewa (air) and not the equipment specified in those contracts.

Apparently, the advice to pay up came from very learned friends, so you and I who are laymen may not quite grasp how failure to allow a thief steal from you time and again can be used as evidence against you.

Moreover, if the said thief is not a lender, then one wonders what would be the risk. But again, the law is a strange creature, so even though Anglo Leasing was confirmed as a phantom operating from a disused building in rural England, they had tentacles all over the world, and so could miraculously sign contracts with foreign governments without setting foot here.

So rather than critise Prezzo UK, he should be applauded for providing leadership and resolving a matter that has plagued this land for a whole decade.