@sparkly is right. Surprisingly this is well enshrined in the Constitution of Kenya 2010 and many of the acts of parliament guiding public expenditure and good governance in general. However, the Kenyans we are, we don't like following the law and this allows our crooked leaders to take advantage of us and continue eating while we lament endlessly.

@murchr - Don't fall for bullshit. The 17 Billion is due to China Road and Bridge Corporation. Are they going to compensate anyone for acquisitions??? These are just smoke screens to confuse the gullible.

This is pure theft!!! Period.

@maichblack you are seriously lacking in the decorum department. Reason why people do not waste their time responding to your posts.

What decorum are you talking about??? I think you should read my posts again.

When I talk about bullshit, I am talking about the stories by the government operatives not the wazuan!!! When a company quotes and is to be paid 17 Billion to build a road and then a government operative tells us the figure is high because it includes compensation to land owners and even quotes figures for the Bomas interchange, isn't that bullshit?? Since when did a contractors quote include compensation to land owners?? Since when did people get compensation from a foreign company for land acquired by the government?

But I understand why you as an individual may be annoyed by my posts. As I said yesterday, from your posts insinuating there is no corruption because the systems are "perfect", you must be part of the eating committee and therefore associated with the government/government operatives!!!

Just read his post# 7. Apparently everything is okay. There are structures that are working and corruption is just a figment of our own imagination. We should not even be discussing this because apparently there can be no corruption in Kenya with all this fabulous structures.

While I agree with your statement in general, I miss the connection of how our internal inefficiencies including inflated project costs affect our neighbours.

I don't think Ug and Rwanda are obligated to jointly source for projects with Kenya, if we are expensive, they should feel free to get cheaper sources of funding to build their railways from Malaba/Busia to Kigali. They can also get an alternative contractor to build their portions of the SGR.

If we were delaying the projects or the projects were not technically compatible, I would understand the need to collaborate, lakini the matter of funding hapana.

On corruption in Kenya, it will definitely bankrupt us at some point, but in my opinion, I would rather we keep improving our infrastructure even if we are losing money to corruption because ultimately its still cheaper than doing nothing.

There's so much ignorance exhibited by whiners here on Wazua.

1. Kenya is not in a joint financial agreement with RW or UG on the construction of the northern corridor. Every country is sourcing for financing and expertise individually.

2. RW has noted that Kenya is almost completing the first phase of the project while UG has not yet began its section (they have a JJ(RIP) who took the issue to court). When they spoke about it they mentioned that the Central corridor is cheaper than the Northern corridor but they are going ahead with both because of previous letdowns by the Tanzanian authorities - which include theft of "substantial quantities of high value export consignments, especially minerals, while in transit in Tanzania. The important thing is to understand that it is not a question of either one or the other. Both are desirable. It is simply a question of which gets built first, but that decision is not solely Rwanda’s to make. It depends largely on the priority similarly accorded to railway portions to Rwanda by the other partners."

3. On LAPSSET. UG was not a partner in the initial plan. The rail, road, pipeline was to begin in Lamu to Juba and Addis. From Juba it would proceed to CAR and on to the Atlantic. The strategy here was to create an in land corridor for transit of goods from the Indian Ocean to the Atlantic. M7 was not happy we had a thread here discussing the issue back in 2012 When the dynamic duo got in power, they tried to please M7 by including him in this plan. We'll, don't we all see why he was not included in the first place?

4. On "eating", who else can stop this culture if its not us? When the GOK says it wants to build a road passing through your house, dont inflate that cost.

Kukula is the thing .if we can stop hii Kukula,kenya would be like ivory coast in the 80's