Enforcement is everything especially in counties. Governors are commiting despicable economic crimes left right and centre without fear of retribution. Think about it is our problem lack of laws or failure of enforcement? Counties don't need more new laws, the existing laws need to be implemented.

Very sad.

Between 2003 and 2009, Kenya received 24 billion shillings from the Global Fund for Malaria, TB and HIV/AIDS. 30 percent of this money went into conferences, seminars and training sessions that were mostly done in fancy hotels. That's 7.2 billion shillings!

Extrapolate that to the entire government expenditure and get a clearer picture of how much money is wasted in these hotels.

Yet some sycophants up there want us to believe this is something new. Started with the dream team and we are still dreaming .....

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.

Enforcement is very easy. Go to Naivasha for whatever training then pass the invoice to GOK. GOK is looking for ways of cuttin down the bloated workforce, and you'll have presented yourself on the chopping board. Again, he who pays the piper calls the tune.