PumwaniHospital How do PPPs work?
A businessman wants to start a school in a posh area like Dennis Pritt road, but there’s no land big enough for him to afford to buy and set up the school. But there’s a kanjo school called St Georges that is suffering from neglect.
So he approaches the governor or a politician higher, suggests that they privatize the school, and the politician gets a cut. But they both know that just invading the school will present a political problem. The poor parents whose kids attend that school won’t like that story.
So first they have two options.
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they come to the school as a private foundation, improve the facilities, put the head teacher in their pocket, employ private teachers and crowd out the kanjo employees.Then they say: these standards are not sustainable. Parents have to pay. In the end, kids are from the nearby homes because their parents are the ones who can pay.
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Do like Sonko. If the head teacher refuses to buy into the plan, stage a raid and show classes without teachers and bad toilets. Kick a tantrum on TV, get everyone angry about the state state of the school. Pay your bots to say how you’re working and you care for the people. Then two days later, take a selfie at the office of the business, pronounce the blessed word PPP, then unveil a plan to build a new school and call it Muigai primary school. Pay your bots to say that this is better than nothing, what a hard working governor you are.
In the end, you, the public official, in partnership with the private businessman, build a new school on land you din’t buy but took from the public. So the capital isn’t yours. You sign a “partnership” saying that the profits go the business that put up the new buildings.
Meanwhile, you’ve both gentrified the school, and couldn’t care less where the poor kids that used to attend the school went. If they go to the street? You get Julie Gichuru or a preacher to lament how these days, parents no longer take care of their kids, and to tell parents to take responsibility.
The PPP has also written the contract in one of two ways:
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kanjo contracts the business to run the school. The business collects on behalf of kanjo, but also gets to say whether the money meets the expected profits (which is most likely never) and kanjo pays the difference.
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kanjo could hand over the school to the business for a stipulated number of years. Renewable. Any time the public questions anything fishy that happens at the school, the Governor pleads that kanjo can’t interfere and can’t afford to break the contract.
With either arrangement, the mama mboga whose kid was turned away from the school is still running battles in the street with kanjo askaris to earn enough money to pay kanjo, so that kanjo can pay the business that grabbed the school her kid was forced out of.
And then that businessman will go on a TV show called “youth entrepreneurship” and say that the problem with Kenyan kids these days is that they want to go to school and become managers, instead of starting a business. And the suit or weave-wearing anchor will nod their head. The media’s job is to launder the theft and corruption. The media renames theft as PPP, calls the corrupt politicians hardworking, and calls the thieving businessman an entrepreneur.
Meanwhile, mama mboga struggles to get a few coins to give to kanjo to pay schools for the kids of the rich, not for her own kids. And the rich politician uses the money from the PPP to campaign in another election, and mama mboga votes him in. Again.
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ilianza na a tantrum of a PR stunt.
wonder how much jamaa wa kuweka bodies kwa boxes alipewa. (truth is stranger than fiction)