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You should be very concerned about the millions of farmers who have already been sold the fake subsidised fertiliser in readiness for planting (Star headline).
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Purple Lord
Senior Lister
Mmecheza na moto
mzeiya
Elder Lister
I try and not partake of too much negativity all the time. It's not healthy you know?
Francis Gaitho. v other twitter influencers.
I normally listen to Francis Gaitho's YouTube videos making a lot of sense and trying to whip us up to think about proper governance as Kenyans. Gaitho and his talks are a national treasure. This afternoon I saw one of tweeps I follow in a twitter space and decided to join and listen in. Stayed...
kenyanlist.net
See no evil, hear no evil. Sawa we all keep cool as the country hurtles into the abyss....or as the house burns.I try and not partake of too much negativity all the time. It's not healthy you know?
Francis Gaitho. v other twitter influencers.
I normally listen to Francis Gaitho's YouTube videos making a lot of sense and trying to whip us up to think about proper governance as Kenyans. Gaitho and his talks are a national treasure. This afternoon I saw one of tweeps I follow in a twitter space and decided to join and listen in. Stayed...
mzeiya
Elder Lister
Denis Young
Elder Lister
Extraordinary people make things happen, while the ordinary criticize and whine. You have to give it up to the president. Amesema mtakatwa pesa ya affordable housing mpende msipende and he is finally having his way despite the legal hurdles. On the other hand, another fellow wasted a whole presidential term pushing garbage and gave up as soon as the courts placed the first hurdle in his way. A breath of fresh air to be honest.
mzeiya
Elder Lister
His tactic of putting the formally employed vs those without paychecks is working, I see.
Denis Young
Elder Lister
Hehe...I am the last person to be influenced by those kind of tired tactics. I am just a great believer in the idea of affordable housing. Also, quite unenthusiastic about Kenyans whining over everything and anything to the point it requires force to move people from their comfort zone.
Kibaki did it by raising taxes. Today if you ask people how Kibaki managed to raise revenues and thus grow the economy, very few will know the answer.
Swansea
Elder Lister
Majority of Kenyans are barely making it. They can barely put three square meals on the table and you're here talking about "affordable housing".
What is the unemployment rate amongst the youth & country in general? How will they pay for those "affordable housing"?
Do you see how ridiculous you sound?
Denis Young
Elder Lister
Sema YOU can't afford to pay for the houses. Just because you don't have the capacity to understand the program let alone the ambition and vision to appreciate the opportunity at hand, hio ni shida yako..
Furthermore, there will never be a day when every Kenyan can afford three meals a day. Those perfect conditions will never exist. Hence the need for the housing stimulus program to generate jobs and stimulate an entire juakali industry.
You cheer on a dictator who disregards the law, a gluttonous ogre that has gone berserk, keep on cheering the ogre until ukufikie and eats you. Its now eating the salaried with the stupid housing and health deductions. Juzi imefikia watu wa afokado. Saa hii all the hasoras have removed paybill numbers from their businesses coz the ogre is slapping them with turnover tax after logging into the paybills. Why should a teacher working deep in the village in mathira or kapenguria or lokichogio be deducted money to build houses in distant lands, houses he will never own or live in?
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How did Kibaki stimulate the housing sector? He made credit affordable by reducing interest rates from 30% wakati wa moi to 14%. Then people borrowed to build houses and there was a housing boom that generated jobs and boosted the economy. But now we are back to the dark ages where interest rates are 27% and few can afford house loans. Then the political class has come up with a scheme to grab public land all over the country and grab cash from all salaried employees so that they can use the grabbed land and grabbed cash to build themselves and their cronies houses all over. Any houses built on public land using public funds (ie the forced deductions from salaried citizens) should remain public property and not transferred to private individuals.
Denis Young
Elder Lister
Your taxes are also used to pay a stimulus package to vulnerable wazee. Since you will never eat that money even in your old age, does it make you angry? You also pay a road maintenance levy when you buy fuel, how does it feel knowing you will never drive the entire network of Kenyan roads to recoupe you hard earned taxes? Save me the whinny bubble!
Denis Young
Elder Lister
I was not even talking about housing during Kibaki's time. I was referring to how he raised revenues. But quick question, how did Kibaki bring down bank interest rates btw?
QuadroK4000
Elder Lister
Ulikua una watch fresh prince kitambo?
mzeiya
Elder Lister
I have hazy memories of it.