The thing is that this wasteful spending does not stop with hotels and is deeply ingrained in government culture. When I was new in civil service, I found it hard to understand why we would go out to Naivasha and other places to hold a meeting which could just as well have been held in the office boardroom. My colleagues then explained that we need a fresh and quiet environment to work better. But soon I was to realize that these meetings were really a means to earning that extra coin. And there's a lot of peer pressure...your subordinates will complain to you that such and such department has held two training sessions in Mombasa, why can't we hold ours in a similar venue. In the long run this is a way of making money...and if you close it, the ever creative Kenyans will come up with other ways.

Tell him all govt funds have to be accounted for, and now hotel incursions will no longer be one of the methods, so let him tell us how enforcement will be hard. Actually treasury can come up with many similar regulations that would stem wanton corruption n embezzling n wastage of public funds.

It's in the process of checking these devolved thieves, this is a new phenomenon. So I really don't get what you are on about.