Audio By Vocalize President William Ruto [Kelly Ayodi, Standard] President William Ruto’s visit to Northern Kenya this week provides an important opportunity to better understand the region’s unique socio-economic challenges. First, there is the devastating impact of the recent drought, persistent gaps in service delivery, and the slow, uneven gains of devolution on people’s welfare. The region has just emerged from one of the worst droughts in recent history. According to humanitarian agencies, more than 4.3 million Kenyans were left in need of assistance, with northern counties bearing the brunt. Millions of livestock were lost, dealing a severe blow to…
Author: By Abukar Abdirahman
Audio By Vocalize President William Ruto [Kelly Ayodi, Standard] President William Ruto’s visit to Northern Kenya this week provides an important opportunity to better understand the region’s unique socio-economic challenges. First, there is the devastating impact of the recent drought, persistent gaps in service delivery, and the slow, uneven gains of devolution on people’s welfare. The region has just emerged from one of the worst droughts in recent history. According to humanitarian agencies, more than 4.3 million Kenyans were left in need of assistance, with northern counties bearing the brunt. Millions of livestock were lost, dealing a severe blow to…
Fraud is a global problem, affecting organisations across every region and industry worldwide. Governments lose hundreds of billions of dollars annually to corruption and fraud, with the US government estimated to lose about $233 billion each year. In Kenya, former President Uhuru Kenyatta once said the country was losing approximately Sh2 billion every day to corruption. A few years ago, while attending an investor conference in Washington, DC, I struck up a conversation with a fellow attendee during a break. Upon learning that I was from Kenya, he remarked, “It is a great country with great people and enormous…
Fraud is a global problem, affecting organisations across every region and industry worldwide. Governments lose hundreds of billions of dollars annually to corruption and fraud, with the US government estimated to lose about $233 billion each year. In Kenya, former President Uhuru Kenyatta once said the country was losing approximately Sh2 billion every day to corruption. A few years ago, while attending an investor conference in Washington, DC, I struck up a conversation with a fellow attendee during a break. Upon learning that I was from Kenya, he remarked, “It is a great country with great people and enormous…