Over 356,000 jobless teachers applied for 14,000 slots advertised by TSC. If Azimio were to employ all these unemployed teachers, it would need at least KShs. 266 Billion.
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If all unemployed teachers were asked to apply for TSC jobs, even teachers already employed in private schools would apply. The amount of money needed to fulfil this promise by Azimio would be unimaginable.
I wonder who included this promise in their manifesto. Their only salvation is the disinterest Kenyans display towards campaign promises.
If this was a country where politicians are held to account over their campaign promises, this would bring down the Azimio government if elected.
Even their promise to make education free from kindergarten to University is just hot air.
This is something which can only be achieved progressively over many years and certainly not under our current fiscal constraints.
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IMO, disputes with @KRACorporate aren't always about collected and unremitted taxes. The Keroche dispute was about interpretation of tax laws regarding some of the products. Keroche collected and remitted taxes based on their interpretation which was different from KRA's.
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When KRA does an assessment and issues a demand running into billions yet you never collected the tax where do you get that kind of money? Such disputes have been there even with multinationals such as EABL and Coca-cola.
Regarding the current taxes, KRA needs to understand how COVID restrictions affected Keroche. Their monthly sales fell by 90% yet the company retained the workers. This depleted their finances.
Why would the amount for the subsidy be kept a secret? These are public funds being used. The lack of transparency creates opportunities for corruption.
Millers should remember that in 2017, their subsidy payments took years after Jubilee was re-elected. It is even riskier to make a shadowy deal with an outgoing regime.
The maize challenge is huge and can't be resolved through political tricks. The ongoing drought and high cost of inputs could lower maize production by up to 50% of normal output.
Based on this 2005 report from South Africa, I am surprised that this technology to convert coal to fuel has existed for decades. Yet whenever we discuss about coal in Kenya, we only think about burning it to produce power.
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24 August, 2005
" @SasolSA has produced almost 1.5 billion barrels of synthetic fuel from about 800 million tonnes of coal since the first sample of synthetic oil from coal was produced fifty years ago at its Sasolburg plant near Johannesburg in South Africa on 23 August 1955.
Regarded as a world technology leader in the production of coal-to-liquids (CTL), Sasol operates the world's only commercial scale synthetic plant at Secunda, where it produces 150 000 barrels of liquid fuel per day.
Where are those who were saying that the government can't do anything about high price of unga because it is a global problem? Are we now in a different globe?
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Unfortunately, this decision to lower the price of Unga for four weeks is just a political gimmick. I wonder how they will implement it and at what cost.
This might trigger panic buying, stockpiling and hoarding by consumers resulting in shortages.
Given the short time span for the subsidy, a lot of arbitrage opportunities/risks arise. Traders might buy the unga and hoard it until after four weeks hoping to make a fortune when normal prices resume.
Those who argue that smallholder agriculture can tackle our rising food needs fail to consider many things. Will the kind of youths we are raising be interested in the backbreaking work of tilling small pieces of land or tending to animals?
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This should also be viewed through the prism of climate change which has reduced rainfed agriculture to gambling. Besides, youths nowadays are preoccupied with instant gratification while farming takes time, effort and offers no guarantees.
Commercialisation of farming through large highly mechanised parcels will make it fun and attract the youth. Use of irrigation will increase income certainty.
It is good that the merchants of prosperity gospel are seeing the light albeit late in the day. Godpreneurs take advantage of the poor to enrich themselves at the expense of their gullible followers.
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If financial success just depended on paying 10% of our income to God, there would be no poor people on earth. Yet amongst the poorest of the poor are some of the most honest tithers.
Attributing financial success to tithing is an absurdity with shaky biblical foundation. It is based on misinterpretation and manipulation of scriptures.