VituVingiSana wrote:While the government of Kenya dithers, the other governments are doing OUR job. Excellent!
Sometimes feel we should be re-colonized since our politicians (elected by us) have no ethics! At least the 'western' countries [in spite of the past atrocities] have decided to act in the human interest.
Human interest? They are eliminating anyone who does what they themselves do, in hopes of quashing Sub Saharan economic expansion to the point where there is no hope of the begging bowl going away.
1. Every court case you see like this is about freezing assets and money, and about stifling Sub-Saharan Africa's economic growth to maintain a donor/recipient relationship. It says right in Wikileaks that the aim is to "secure Africa's resources" and that's right from the horse's mouth.
2. What these guys have done, most wealthy people in the West do daily, and millions add up to billions, especially when the West is broke. The difference is discretion, vision, and local investment, instead of chest-thumping indiscretion, scandal, and hiding money offshore.
3. If these fat cats would have just created jobs and industry, and reinvested in Kenya instead of squirreling money away in foreign banks, they'd be untouchable "heros". These guys have to learn how to give back to the community and to separate themselves, their dirt, and their egos from the resulting companies (and stock prices).
To say that you feel that .ke should be recolonized? What do you think they are trying to do right now???
If they succeed, they'll put us all in slave chains for sure, because they are broke.
The way that the West realized such great economic expansion is by the transfer of wealth from those that don't know any better and will spend money on imports, vices, and consumerist garbage, to those in the power seat that will
build businesses and create jobs with the money. That's what is missing from Kenya... when someone creates or amasses wealth, there needs to be a subsequent re-investment of the money into wealth creation.
If Mwau, for example, had created 3000 jobs, and Kenya's first high end company to make ARVs, who could EVER complain? And he himself would be three times as rich as a result, along with 3000 more people skyrocketed into the middle class. He still can.
Corruption is bad, and should be rooted out. That's a justice system issue. But to me, my question is: WHERE DID THE MONEY GO? That's an economic issue. If you create jobs and expand the middle class, thus empowering the common man by reducing poverty, the other issues will eventually sort themselves out.
And stock prices rise.
Best,
Hill