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IMF managing director Kristalina Georgieva and President Ruto. [File Courtesy]
I’ll not be unkind, like the IMF—our so-called International Mother and Father—who seem to suggest that the Kenya Kwanza’s lies have caught up with them, and so they have no choice but to disclose the nation’s debt portfolio.
The IMF are basically asking for the same info that Busia Senator Okoiti Omtata has been scrounging for in the courts, making a simple but persuasive argument that without a debt register, we could keep paying phantom creditors in perpetuity.
Enyewe, we have to admit things are thick when even a shylock who has milked you for years is nervous about getting his money back! But that’s not my problem. It’s good that the IMF are reluctant to lend us more cash because most of what they lend us is squandered.
I’d have said stolen, but I checked myself just in time; the United Alternative Government use that term more liberally against the person of Prezzo Bill Ruto. And since I have no way of verifying such claims, I am guided by Prezzo Ruto’s stoic silence that he doesn’t intend to honour such claims with a response, so he just hoists himself up his SUV and speaks himself hoarse, extolling the achievements of his administration.
But since folks at the IMF aren’t persuaded, then it means they might know a thing or two that we do not. Or it could be that Kenyans know a lot more than those folks in Washington. As our people say, listening to someone speak is not a burden, nor is it an assent.
