Why middle-class Kenyans are a let-down

I was at my friend’s house when news about the Treasury being broke was aired and his son asked why the government says it doesn’t have money yet people pay taxes. His father gave him the best answer I have heard so far.

“In every workplace there are employees who live way beyond their means that they have borrowed from everyone but you cannot explain where every penny they get goes to.” Had it not been that the boy was just 14 years I would have added, “In this situation Kenyans are the hangers on who know you are living on borrowed money but encourage you to buy beer.”