The US Government gives quite a few dollars, like 1.6 Billion to the Kenyan Government and it is well known that the corruption there is unfortunate, as the money never really ever gets to the intended recipients, instead it is stolen by officials and corrupt people.
Not long ago the Online Think Tank wrote a Plan of Action for the Nairobi, Kenya Slum named “Kiberia” and sent it to the World Leaders at Davos and to those meeting in Nairobi to discuss the poverty issues there and in the rest of Africa.
Our .pdf report and the corresponding eBook was well received by most, but certainly not by those who have been involved in the corruption, as the following week a law was past that no “White People” may visit the Kibera Slum in Nairobi anymore. I was told this was typical of how things are done. And since the government did not wish to discuss it, they instead will try to hide it all.
How can you hide the fact that 1.3 million people live in slums in Nairobi, the city is covered with them all around it. In the Kibera slum there are 800,000 people living in a 2.8 square mile area next to a 3 square mile golf course. Even the leaders house backs up to the slum, they just do not care. In an article in Christian Science Monitor it stated:
Human-rights activists reacted angrily to a vote by Parliament in Kenya Wednesday that appears to shield lawmakers from being investigated for their roles in certain scandals. The move bars the Anti-Corruption Commission from probing cases of graft that occurred before 2003, the year it was set up by President Mwai Kibaki. He won office a year earlier, in part by pledging to clean up government after two high- profile scandals – known as Goldenberg and Anglo Leasing – cost the treasury an estimated $630 million that allegedly went into politicians’ pockets.
I hope you will read our eBook on the Nairobi Kenya slums and think about this, sincerely, Lance. http://www.worldthinktank.net/pdfs/Nairobi.pdf
