Ours is country of contradictions where the rich and poor coexist

Kenya is a confounding country. So confounding that you cannot call us poor or rich without being horribly wrong. No, we are not a poor country. We have the best luxurious getaways in the world. A peek into the details of a political leaders’ payslip will confirm that we pay our leaders higher salaries than they pay the Presidents of the supposedly wealthy west. And guess what, we don’t care how far they went in school or whether they have done anything in the past worth writing home about. We throw money at them and at other top appointees who routinely help themselves into the cookie jar and the world goes on. Why, they manage the country’s vast revenue collection and expenditure affairs. As Achebe would ask, do we really expect those who live next to River Nile to wash their face with spittle?

We are so rich that if we realise that public officers are not performing, we give them some more money to induce them to accept to go home. You see, our people don’t resign empty-handed. You induce them to do so. That’s why there is so much peace at the top that only chicken thieves go to jail. And don’t listen to the tall tales that these people hate jail. What’s more, this week we joined the list of the top 100 country’s where it’s as easy as ABCD to start a business.