SGR to Kisumu is expanding the legacy project curse. The region has ten counties whose economies have collapsed fundamentally. Future of Kenya Foundation (FOK Foundation has examined The political economy of devolution; sadly the Railway to wherever is a tool of importation not economic turn around;
Migori’s economy depends on commerce/ trade, small scale agriculture, livestock from across in the Transmara, so are Kisii and Vihiga counties; Nyamira is large scale tea that bad fertilizer prices and dead roads have suffocated; jump to KK and the dead sugar sector same as Kisumu and Bungoma has precipitated big economic slump; unemployment is the biggest crisis across The Lake counties of Busia, Siaya, Kisumu and Homabay (Migori partly) which have stalled, decayed, stunted because there is no strategy to commercialize the Lake and six big rivers’ Blue economy to unlock potential. Counties should have focused on this investment but you know these five counties are the worst run in Kenya.
The Lunatic X (Kenya Uganda railway) was strategic for exporting raw materials out to Britain. On the contrary, This SGR curse is for speeding up imports into Kisumu/ Nyanza/ Western region from China, Turkey, Pakistan, Korea, India? Mtumba, TVs, Cars, electronics, plastics name it. SGR is for speeding up imports inland. That is Uhuru’s strategy for turning us into a huge consumer market for his and foreign goods. Then you do SGR for foreigners to speed up their trade by borrowing from China etc? And this is strategic? How?
Anonymous says
Let the Kenyan communities have the freedom to trade the consumer products and produce among themselves without the INTERFERENCE FROM THE POLITICAL PARASITES as the middlemen!!
These parasitic POLITICIANS make the prices of local consumer goods not affordable!! Chinese. a country with the population of 1.386 billion people will flood Kenya with toxic or plastic products !!
THE VERY CORRUPT, CONFUSED AND LOW IQ KENYAN RULING CARTELS ARE SETTING UP THE KENYAN CITIZENS TO TO BE MERCILESSLY CONVERTED INTO PERMANENT CONSUMERS, INCAPABLE OF THINKING FOR THEMSELVES!!
WHY?? GREED, GREED AND GREED!
THEY MIGHT AS WELL RENAME LAKE VICTORIA AS CHINA LAKE!!
WHERE DO THESE ELITES GET THEIR ADVICE FROM? OR ARE THEY SO BLINDED WITH TRIBAL HATRED AND GREED THAT THEY HAVE STOPPED THINKING??
Anonymous says
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Nyamira is large scale tea that bad fertilizer prices and dead roads have suffocated; jump to KK and the dead sugar sector same as Kisumu and Bungoma has precipitated big economic slump;
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FERTILIZERS IMPORTED INTO KENYA ARE FOREIGN TOXIC WASTE DUMPED IN KENYA AFTER BRIBES ARE PAID TO ELITES OR GIVEN AS FOREIGN LOANS!! HOW STUPID DOES IT GET!
KENYAN YOUTHS MUST GO BACK TO CARRY ON WITH PEASANT FARMING INSTEAD OF ALLOWING THEMSELVES TO BE CONVERTED INTO CHEAP WATCHMEN/SECURITY GUARDS AND TOILET CLEANERS FOR THE KENYAN POLITICAL ELITES AND THEIR FOREIGN ALLIES!!
THE LITTLE CASH THESE YOUNG WATCHMEN, SECURITY GUARDS, OR GARDEN BOYS GET FOR THEIR SERVICES TO THE ELITES IS BEING ZAPPED UP ON ADDICTIVE RECREATIONAL PRODUCTS (drugs, alcohol, and gambling machines) FOUND INSIDE THE JOINTS SETUP IN THEIR NEGLECTED NEIGHBORHOODS WHERE THEY LIVE BY THE VERY SAME PARASITIC ELITES !
xavior says
Yap, the rail will speed the imports into the region but the export from the region will also get competitive