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iyah360
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« on: July 15, 2004, 09:27:33 AM »

http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/africa/07/15/kenya.corruption.ap/index.html

UK envoy attacks graft 'gluttons'
Thursday, July 15, 2004 Posted: 5:47 AM EDT (0947 GMT)

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) -- Britain's ambassador, in strikingly barbed comments, said a resurgence of corruption is costing Kenya hundreds of million of dollars and could jeopardize international aid, calling corrupt Kenyan officials "gluttons."

Kenya's creditors never expected corruption to be "vanquished overnight," High Commissioner Edward Clay told a meeting of British investors in Kenya on Tuesday.

But creditors also did not expect corrupt business to continue as usual following the December 2002 election of President Mwai Kibaki, who won in large part on promises to battle graft -- endemic under the administration of his predecessor, Daniel arap Moi.

Confidence soared following Kibaki's victory, and donors late last year resumed lending to Kenya three years after the country was largely cut off because of graft.

But the European Union, United States and Japan recently warned of resurgent corruption, echoing concerns expressed in May by Kenyan anti-corruption officials.

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http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/africa/07/15/kenya.corruption.ap/index.html

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« Reply #1 on: July 17, 2004, 12:59:08 PM »

The corruption issue in Kenya arises out of "petty" corruption typical in developing countries, where various officers demand gratuities in lieu of the robust salaries in developing countries pulled from the  productive labor of its citizens through taxation.

The countries of USA, UK and Japan pointing the finger at "corruption" is hypocritical and disengenous pontification.  The mega corruption scandals of all three countris, particularly in the areas of weapons manufacture, war making and predatory financial and energy market debacles, like ENRON, make Kenyan petty graft and corruption look like child's play.  

In the  case of Japan, a country I have significant knowledge base of and whose people are freinds of mine, there isn't a week that goes by without a corruption scandal.  A member of Kenyan ministry with his or her hand out to make ends meet hardly compares to the vast instututional corruption of Japanese governent officials whose graft and corruption is institutional, affecting people around the globe.  

As for the USA and U.K., well, the British are very good at stifling any form of public inquiry into the depths of their corruption through the official secrets act.   The current government in the USA is not only corrupt, a good  case can be made that it is , like most governments, an organized crime racket, specializing in protection.

In the case of all three governments, money was spread around with reckless abandon in countries like Kenya (particularly Japan), often promoting the weakest links in the target countries' ruling elite, actually facilitating and encouraging this "corruption"  This is classic divide and conquer strategy - back the weakest side .   Once the target is run into the ground, the mana from heaven is pulled back.   It's not much different than any other organized crime racket scheme.  

meanwhile, continual instability and frustration of national self determination is realized , therefore, perpetuating the easy removal of raw materials needed før the "developed" world's technocracies.

IN fairness to Japan, that country has a much better track record in trying to develop real partnership and fair trade with African countries.  However, in Kenya , Japan has any number of scandals brewing over badly planned and cavalier projects that trampled on the rights ø? local people.  But, they are certainly more redeemable than most all of the other foreign mission parrallell governments operating in Kenya now of the Brito/American/E.U. empire. Lips Sealed
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