UK launching an Shs.8bn program in Kenya. Why not the President Uhuru or DP Ruto ?

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[SIZE=7]UK launches Sh8bn Urban Economic Development Program for 10 counties. [/SIZE]

https://www.capitalfm.co.ke/news/2018/11/uk-launches-sh8bn-urban-economic-development-program-for-10-counties/

Someone who knows how the Kenya government works please shed a light here. This thread is not how Jubilee is running things but the role of government leadership in general.

Why is Kenyan government not launching the program but the UK ? Even though the UK is the donor country.

Is it the UK or Kenya that has set the criteria and responsible for selecting the ten (10) viable counties out of the 47 to benefit from the program ?

The Counties are the potential beneficiaries but were they involved in the consultations on the five categories listed as part of the program implementation ?

I ask these questions for a couple of reasons. One, are Western countries now using county governments to find ways to dictate what programs they implemented in Kenya. As opposed to responding to the needs identified by the government of the day ?

Second and more critical question for me, what do the Brits want in return ? I hope future generations are not being burdened with more debts. Debts or programs that outsiders think are a priority. All I know is that as usual there are officials from both the national and county governments already ready to “eat” when the program money rolls in.

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  1. Nobody appreciates what the GoK does unless somebody does one little thing and all pundits start pounding GoK
  2. Do not look a gift horse in the mouth.
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@Amused , Lakini hii gift ni ya which viable 10 counties ? Then I will avoid looking into the horse’s mouth.

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this is what we call a government to government agreement there is nothing wrong with what the UK have done

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If you ask the counties, they’ll fight until they chase the donor away. Housing for Kenyans is housing and I wouldn’t care if the donor chose the beneficiaries or they were selected randomly in a raffle. Just don’t give those politicians a choice.

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Whatever it is they are doing,they have just circumvented the biggest drain of finances: government bureaucracy.
That’s why there would be someone who would loudly condemn whatever it is the Brits are doing,sababu wamemnyang’anya kitoweo na ugalia ashapika…

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Some of us at times live under the impression that we are a free country. We are not. It’s a playground for the rich na wewe ni nyasi tu.

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Let them bring that investment. Britain is try to reestablish itself post brexit era. Its also not a loan. GoK is okay with it since its better to spend Kshs 10 billion on developing counties than what they have been doing in the past. Giving it to maina kiai in their quest to covertly change tenants in state house with their own. That money ends up in real estates in Nairobi, coast, globally and the rest goes to an orgy of parties, slayqueens, slay men and buying favourable rulings in court.

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That’s the part I like to hear the most ! Our grand kids and great grand children are already burdened enought to pay off current debts through taxation.

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:D:D politicians including MCA’s , MPigs and governors fighting like hell.

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This is just something to fill newspaper pages and make Kenyans think UK cares. It’s just empty promises. UK doesn’t have money to waste while homelessness is surging in London.
6 months from today they will find an excuse to shelf this plan