@Nabwire, Is yours a discussion or an ARGUMENT? Coz if you are arguing, i can't help you. You discuss to get to the truth,the facts.You argue to WIN,and that's what i get from your post.Morphing previous points/reasons to totally different stuff after getting response to them.
Now you are telling to vote whomever will bring vessels to Mombasa before Dar.

If you forgot,the discussion was and still is,whether Kenya doesn't need Europe [which i take to mean the West].If i need to vote somebody who'll bring those vessels,then clearly,we do NEED Europe.
About the part in red,i know how they got to where they are.When they are trading with the West,it is not on their terms. It is a common joke in S.Korea that they are the 51st state of US.Do you know why?Majority of their policies are tuned as per US requirements. Have you ever been to a Chinese factory making stuff for the West? It borders on slavery,long hours of work,sleeping in factory dormitories,earning wages that the poorest of the Westerners can never be paid. Take a visit to China,S.Korea,Cambodia [Pol Pot's change society],Vietnam [they fought the Americans], the average man on the street will tell you how they see the west,as is who is the West.
Do you know when Hong Kong got their independence? In 1997. Can we say we are better than them because we have been FREE?

Real FREEDOM is having an empowered POPULACE.
Kenya will be powerful hence "free" by trading with everybody who offers to trade with us.
When shipping,the most reliable shipping line is Maersk of Holland,one can go East but they are not that reliable,it won't be funny to chase your shipment for 3 months,one middle eastern line is notorious for that.
When exporting/importing, not unless you are shipping from/to China [excluding Japan in this post] you have the limited option of paying or getting paid in Yuan. You have to use USD or Euro.

We DON'T import oil using Yuan,the Yuan can't help us in that regard..

@murchr, Not all countries develop by consuming their products,they need to export in order to import machinery and other inputs. That's how we got the ASIAN TIGERS. Their economies have been EXPORT-ORIENTED.
A poor Kenyan will first buy unga before buying kisii soap stone carvings.But the day the average Kenyan won't be as poor as it is today,they'll gladly buy even decorated ostrich eggs.

So sticking to the discussion, WE NEED THE WEST/EU. Voting suspects won't help in that regard.

If only life was this straight forward

Quote:

The United States has said it
will punish companies that
facilitate financial
transactions with Iran’s
Central Bank, which clears oil
deals, by excluding them from
the U.S. market. Such
measures have already been
taken on Chinese oil firm Zu
Hai Zhen Rong, which was
thought by some to be largely
symbolic as this company
does little business with Iran.
However, the move
underpinned Washington’s
resolve on the issue.
Several countries are currently
in the process of negotiating
with the United States on an
individual basis to determine
the exact conditions of
possible trade embargoes
with Iran.
Among them, Japan is in a
particularly delicate
predicament. Following the
devastating tsunami last year,
the Japanese government was
forced to close down many of
the country’s nuclear power
stations, dramatically
increasing its reliance on
imported oil. In order to
avoid its financial institutions
being shut out of the crucial
U.S. market, Tokyo will have
to reduce oil imports from
Iran to levels considered
satisfactory to officials in
Washington.
Tokyo is currently in the
process of finishing up
negotiations with Washington
regarding how much Japan
has to cut its Iranian oil
imports in order to win
waivers from the U.S.
sanction. Japan’s Yomiuri
Newspaper, citing
unidentified sources, has said
that Japan and the United
States are likely to settle on an 11 percent cut.'


Oh great Kenya. The superpower.

Copy and Paste:

Without doubt, a Jubilee Kenya will provide international relations with yet-to-be-named new category, a mongrel between a “rogue democracy” (Tunisia, Egypt or the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip) and a “pariah state” (Sudan, Iran or North Korea). Kenyan voters must take a patriotic stand on March 4 to secure the country’s future.

But it is not clear how far the West is ready to go in unraveling long-standing diplomatic, military and economic ties with Kenya, a pivotal state in the US-led war on terror.

By: Prof Peter Kagwanja is the President and CEO of the Africa Policy Institute.

http://elections.nation....2/-/11884mo/-/index.html

Quite interesting this made it to publication in DN past the editor - http://www.nation.co.ke/...6/-/h9h31v/-/index.html

I'm intend to get books from this lady,Dambisa Moyo.They seem like they will be on the same level:

1.Dead Aid: Why Aid is Not Working and How There is a Better Way For Africa (2009)

2.How the West Was Lost: Fifty Years of Economic Folly – And the Stark Choices that Lie Ahead (2011)

3.Winner Take All: China's Race for Resources and What It Means for the World (June 2012)

It's soo sad that you have reduced yourself to a politician. Your credibility & authority here in the Investor section is fast waning
Have you been paid?

Interesting http://m.allafrica.com/s...ra_mb_no%26channel%3Dbh & now that its Advocates have held the Finance docket since the GNU in '09... #Fail http://www.newzimbabwe.c...g+anyone+Biti/news.aspx