Thieves should be taxed for what they steal...

Correct if I'm wrong lunatic express was quite expensive and it had to pay for itself. This was done by encouraging the establishment of 'white highlands'to fuel a modern economy. That also meant forcing the what they called natives into native reserves, the start of the hut tax and poll tax forcing the natives to exchange labor for money to pay tax. Isn't it the peasants who were expelled from the rift valley who gathered up to form the Land and Freedom Army, the army of ithaka na wiathi.

Same thing with SGR instead of 'white highlands' you instead have establishment of Special economic zones SEZs

Yes you can transport goods cheaply without expensive infrastructure. If you are manufacturing for export why not locate the industries at the coastal belt or it is re-export locate the industries in kisumu



Simple wealth is the output of production. The interplay of the factors of production capital, labor, land and technology (human capital) is what turns idle resources into wealth. The road to wealth starts by providing goods and services that the population wants and is willing to pay for. The more goods and services produced the more the wealth and infrastructure to serve the economy grows.
The economy grows where there is an exchange of goods and knowledge. Urban expansion is the best way to promote the exchange of knowledge and promote the division and specialization of labor.

Government spending does not stimulate economic growth. It just redistributes the income it collects from taxes. It misallocates capital towards less productive uses. It is wasteful in expenditure e.g. 10 bob biro pen will cost the govt 150. Kenya economic history shows growth has come when govt has taken a back seat and allowed private sector generate wealth.

The very reason I was opposing the move by kivutha to get his county govt into business.

Economist Solow in his Solow modell describes how a country can beat poverty in a space of fifteen years
In a nutshell he says, the rate of technogical advacement in a year should exceed populational growth.It is then and only then, that country can beat poverty
In few words, there is no economic growth without investmenting in things like SGR.