The back page on Daily Nation on Oct 8, 2010 has the story as "US accuesed of Sh4.9bn funding for kenya vote". A couple of years down the line, teh Web edition has scaled down the figures to 1.1bn.
It reads, "The United States spent Sh1.1 billion ($12.6 million) of its taxpayers money to oil the ‘Yes’ campaign in the August 4 referendum on the new Constitution, an investigation has revealed.
The findings by the inspector general of the United States Agency for International Development (USaid) sharply contradict the position of Obama administration officials who denied that the US took sides during the campaigns.
The USaid inspector general’s investigations, which are yet to be made public, were conducted following a request by Republican party congressmen led by Mr Chris Smith".
http://www.nation.co.ke/.../-/138fn37/-/index.html
See, even the link to the Nation website is still at 4.9bn. Who is fooling who?
All in all, he who pays the piper, calls the tune.
America will be calling the shots in the coming Kenyan elections. Is that good for the country or neocolonialism is finding its way back to the country after Kibaki told them to go eat grass as he turned to the East?
By inference, the man is all that Mr Phantom is not: an untrustworthy radical, divisive, too many enemies, a dictator, and a persistent liar...Gaitho dialogues.