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Forum => Kenya Discussion => Topic started by: RV Pundit on March 31, 2022, 08:03:34 AM
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The most cogent summary of what a country needs to develop
Presidential Candidate
@JimiWanjigi
: "I will address conditions that drive investment: Competent leadership; Physical and digital infrastructure;Stability and security; Rule of Law and efficient judiciary;Stable fiscal and Monetary policy;Fair competition rules and favorable tax"
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On effective digital infrastructure alone, Kenya can cut corruption by more than half, if not wipe it out. If no brains to set it up is available, Kenya should send a delegation to one state, or two and see how systems are used to collect taxes, manage money, audit people, businesses, and money, enhance accountability, and transparency, and much more! Building strong institutions with the help of technology and improving constantly while maintaining consistency over the years will slowly decapitate corruption and aid the rule of law's robustness. In Kenya, it looks like people with brains and ideas NEVER make it to the Statehouse!
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Exactly. Tech is one easiest way to cut the rent seeking
On effective digital infrastructure alone, Kenya can cut corruption by more than half, if not wipe it out. If no brains to set it up is available, Kenya should send a delegation to one state, or two and see how systems are used to collect taxes, manage money, audit people, businesses, and money, enhance accountability, and transparency, and much more! Building strong institutions with the help of technology and improving constantly while maintaining consistency over the years will slowly decapitate corruption and aid the rule of law's robustness. In Kenya, it looks like people with brains and ideas NEVER make it to the Statehouse!
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The problem with Kenya is that brokers like jimmy wanjigi collude with political conmem like ruto and uhuru to borrow billions from foreigners to finance ghost projects like SGR and dams like arror kimearwr while overtaxing the poor to pay that debt while the rich avoid tax in the name of epzs and auditing
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Welcome to Kenya under Ruto ?s=21&t=ZCKoj3usbmofBvV1vGvgng
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You're right on mega corruption - but on systemic corruption - tech can help. Systemic is police office asking for bribe or ID card or passport or city council - where you need to oil people hands to print or push a paper.
Some people consider mega corruption more evil than systemic.
In my view systemic corruption is more insidious.
The problem with Kenya is that brokers like jimmy wanjigi collude with political conmem like ruto and uhuru to borrow billions from foreigners to finance ghost projects like SGR and dams like arror kimearwr while overtaxing the poor to pay that debt while the rich avoid tax in the name of epzs and auditing
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Pundit, mega corruption leads to systemic corruption. The two are birds of a feather. Never believe the boys up there can eat and the office messenger gets nothing.
You're right on mega corruption - but on systemic corruption - tech can help. Systemic is police office asking for bribe or ID card or passport or city council - where you need to oil people hands to print or push a paper.
Some people consider mega corruption more evil than systemic.
In my view systemic corruption is more insidious.
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Yes they are related - but I believe tech has given us a chance to reduce the middle-men - and therefore reduce corruption. If you can do almost everything electronic - computer will not ask the bribe -
Ultimately every country is grappling with corruption - mega is hard to beat - as you need people with discretionary power to decide big tickets projects - but systemic is eliminated in many countries using tech.
Pundit, mega corruption leads to systemic corruption. The two are birds of a feather. Never believe the boys up there can eat and the office messenger gets nothing.
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You can never do away with corruption...tech is not 100% tamper proof..these are man made systems even in developed countries you find Russia manipulating election results in a world power like USA tech is overrated
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Pundit, mega corruption leads to systemic corruption. The two are birds of a feather. Never believe the boys up there can eat and the office messenger gets nothing.
You're right on mega corruption - but on systemic corruption - tech can help. Systemic is police office asking for bribe or ID card or passport or city council - where you need to oil people hands to print or push a paper.
Some people consider mega corruption more evil than systemic.
In my view systemic corruption is more insidious.
When senior government official steal big moneys..they must allow police army which protect them to be corrupt.
.they must a allow investigative bodies like dpp eacc dci to be corrupt to go slow on mega corruption..they must ensure judiciary to be corrupt. So corruption is corruption and thats why it can't be segregated that corrupt money is also given as church offerings its just everyamd nobody can fight it
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You can never do away with corruption...tech is not 100% tamper proof..these are man made systems even in developed countries you find Russia manipulating election results in a world power like USA tech is overrated
Fake news. Russia could not manipulate because if they did, they could have done it for Trump. In my ongoing information and systems security Ph.D quest, I had opportunity to test whether election machines has the ability to connect to the internet. The answer is NO. Cannot be hacked, reached, or manipulated! The US takes Defense-in-depth security approach for critical systems to another level and if they can't, they make it analog in a digital way!