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Forum => Kenya Discussion => Topic started by: RV Pundit on March 30, 2016, 07:37:28 AM
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The dynamic duo have done it. They just need to nail graft and they'll be home n dry.
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On energy:
the DP said the Government plans to generate more power as it has already signed for 1,050 megawatts from coal and 310 megawatts from solar and wind. “Today 22,599 primary schools are connected to power compared to 8,000 schools connected in 2013. There were 2.1 million customers in 2013 but we have connected another 2.2 million customers now,” Ruto said. Under the Last Mile Programme, the Jubilee coalition intends to connect 3.4 million more Kenyans living near transformers. “We have spent Sh7.6 billion on street lighting in 52 towns and many Kenyans are using liquid petroleum gas now than before,” the DP said.
Railway:
Ruto explained that the Standard Gauge Railway (SGR) is 70 per cent done and will be completed in June next year. The Nairobi–Naivasha line is expected to be completed in two months.
Roads:
“When we came into power, the country used to do 300 kilometres of roads per year. In the last three years we have done 1,950km. We have doubled the number of roads being paved with tarmac while Kisumu–Kakamega, Webuye–Kitale ones and six others are complete. In Taita–Taveta we have awarded tenders of new roads,” Ruto said.
Security & Gov services:
The DP said 20,000 additional security personnel have been hired and another 10,000 recruits will add to a total of 103,000, bringing the ratio to 1:380.The Government has also bought armoured personnel carriers for military use and Mine-Resistant Ambush Protected vehicles for the police to improve protection of officers deployed to volatile areas. A total of 3,000 vehicles for national administration and security have been bought and digitisation of Government services like i-Tax, E-Citizen and Huduma Centres are fully functional.
Food security
Jubilee has spent Sh12 billion to subsidise maize, tea, coffee and sugar cane sub-sectors. With the use of E-Voucher system through electronic fertiliser management system, yields have increased from 15 bags to 20 bags per acre,” the DP said. He explained that the strategic food reserve has 4.1 million bags of cereals compared to 2.3 million three years ago.
Ruto also said the Government had bought 70 combine harvesters under the agriculture mechanisation project and this has increased rice yield. See also: ODM Governors want Raila to give them direct nomination tickets in 2017 elections He also said that major efforts have been made to improve the livestock sector. “Under the liquid nitrogen plants project, semen is stored and distributed. There are four new ones in Meru, Nyahururu, Eldoret and Kabete. Others in Kakamega, Kilifi and Marsabit.” The Government, he said, will increase the number of straws of semen from 900,000 to 1.6 million and the cost will be reduced from Sh1,000 to Sh500. “We have distributed 481,000 milk bulking and marketing equipment and 1,000 new ones will be distributed,” Ruto said. He added that a Livestock Insurance Scheme meant to minimise risk emanating from drought-related disasters is now in place. “A total of 25,000 livestock units worth Sh1 billion have been covered in Turkana and Wajir counties, directly benefiting 30,000 families. Roll-out in 12 arid and semi-arid counties is to be done soon,” the DP promised. He said the Government had upgraded the capacity of Kenya Veterinary Vaccines Production Institute at a cost of Sh250 million. The institute is now producing purified oil-based foot and mouth vaccines, reducing the cost of vaccination by 50 per cent and helping to save Sh1 billion.
Health
Ruto noted Kenyans were now enjoying free maternity services and this has increased the number of deliveries in public hospitals. Governors have, however, been complaining that the Government has delayed to disburse funds to finance the programme.“Three years ago, 500,000 were on anti-retroviral drugs (ARVs) but now we have 800,000 on ARVs. Under the Managed Equipment Service, we are targeting 94 hospitals and we will spend Sh38 billion in ten years,” Ruto announced.
The DP also revealed that 5.8 million Kenyans are now under NHIF’s comprehensive outpatient medical cover compared to 3.8 million in 2013. The Government has also expanded medical training by building 19 new Kenya Medical Training College (KMTC) campuses with a capacity for 25,000 students. The number of orphans and vulnerable children, older persons, persons with severe disabilities under the National Safety Net has increased to 720,000 from 220,000 in 2013, he said. The budget for the programme has increased from Sh3 billion to Sh18 billion.
Corruption
On governance, the DP said the Bribery Bill had been approved by Cabinet and 360 corruption cases are in court. “We now have specialised anti-corruption courts with judges and magistrates hearing cases day-by-day,” Ruto said.
Ease of doing business
In business, Ruto singled out the Enactment of Companies, Insolvency and Business Registrar Services Act 2015 and single director of companies as key developments to spur business growth. “Now there is no requirement for lawyers or company secretaries and decisions are by resolution rather than Annual General Meetings. We now have a single form for company registration, PIN, NHIF and NSSF,” Ruto said. Under industrialisation, the value of projects in manufacturing approved by financial institutions has grown from Sh160 billion to Sh240 billion, the DP added.
Read more at: http://www.standardmedia.co.ke/article/2000196540/dp-ruto-outlines-jubilee-s-achievements/?articleID=2000196540&story_title=dp-william-ruto-outlines-jubilee-s-achievements&pageNo=3
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How is the massive spending by the dynamic duo (DD) being replenished?
For instance, when the DD sucks money and spends it to these grandiose projects (with a big chunk being stolen), it is merely redistributing income. New income is not being created. In fact, KRA is struggling to collect more taxes from dwindling sources.
Debt?
And how's it gonna be paid back?
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Massive spending? When gov has only spend 37% of it development budget due to several reasons including court cases, procurement and lack of capacity?
No new income? How then did the GDP grow by 6%. In 55B USD economy that is about 4billion USD new wealth created annually.Despite the hulabaloo, KRA has continued to collect more taxes, thanks to growing economy. When the economy stop growing, you can say we have problem.
Our problem is not overspending..it lack of SPENDING. We should be grateful for Chinese , CDF and Counties...for helping us spend the money. Previously we had problem because WB/IMF/EU and Gov funded projects never could get off ground.
Now Chinese are already 70% done with SGR. Just imagine that? In 3 short years we are rolling a brand new SGR railway. Counties and CDF are delivering roads, schools, water projects and all little project all over the country...which never happened before.
In a growing economy like ours, our debt is sustainable, less than 50% of GDP! Yes as we improve our ability to spend, Rotich find himself increasingly facing cashflow problems, but that is the job of treasury...to find money for gov to spend and spend.
How is the massive spending by the dynamic duo (DD) being replenished?
For instance, when the DD sucks money and spends it to these grandiose projects (with a big chunk being stolen), it is merely redistributing income. New income is not being created. In fact, KRA is struggling to collect more taxes from dwindling sources.
Debt?
And how's it gonna be paid back?
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Lack of information for proper analysis will continue creating and propagating perception of existence of shadowy carters, wheel dealers in these multi billion projects.
Cancellation of Greenfield terminal, Uganda pipeline rerouting and lack of interest in LAPSSET and such indicators not coming out as good indicators.
http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/Are-the-Chinese-funded-projects-worth-debts-we-are-sinking-in/-/440808/3138554/-/5wi25wz/-/index.html
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corruption and kickbacks is given. But we are lucky with the chinese. At least they deliver something and they do it on time. Previously we would pay debts for "air" delivered.
Lack of information for proper analysis will continue creating and propagating perception of existence of shadowy carters, wheel dealers in these multi billion projects.
Cancellation of Greenfield terminal, Uganda pipeline rerouting and lack of interest in LAPSSET and such indicators not coming out as good indicators.
http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/Are-the-Chinese-funded-projects-worth-debts-we-are-sinking-in/-/440808/3138554/-/5wi25wz/-/index.html
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Corruption
On governance, the DP said the Bribery Bill had been approved by Cabinet and 360 corruption cases are in court. “We now have specialised anti-corruption courts with judges and magistrates hearing cases day-by-day,” Ruto said.
One line on corruption. Some vague, useless bribery bill. Mutungaroos anti-corruption courts are now a Jubilee achievement. Since he is into giving numbers, how much has been recouped?
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Pundit
Your statement is subjective...
President Bush's economy's doing very well until they found out how much debt he had taken.
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Kisumu - Kakamega road complete???? Ruto is full of jokes. Why did I need a 4WD to reach Webuye and was forced to return to Kisumu via Bungoma-.Mumias- Ekero. Last week
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Yeah, near complete, there is a small stretch near Kakamega & kisumu town that need a lot of work done.
Kisumu - Kakamega road complete???? Ruto is full of jokes. Why did I need a 4WD to reach Webuye and was forced to return to Kisumu via Bungoma-.Mumias- Ekero. Last week
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Massive spending? When gov has only spend 37% of it development budget due to several reasons including court cases, procurement and lack of capacity?
No new income? How then did the GDP grow by 6%. In 55B USD economy that is about 4billion USD new wealth created annually.Despite the hulabaloo, KRA has continued to collect more taxes, thanks to growing economy. When the economy stop growing, you can say we have problem.
Our problem is not overspending..it lack of SPENDING. We should be grateful for Chinese , CDF and Counties...for helping us spend the money. Previously we had problem because WB/IMF/EU and Gov funded projects never could get off ground.
Now Chinese are already 70% done with SGR. Just imagine that? In 3 short years we are rolling a brand new SGR railway. Counties and CDF are delivering roads, schools, water projects and all little project all over the country...which never happened before.
In a growing economy like ours, our debt is sustainable, less than 50% of GDP! Yes as we improve our ability to spend, Rotich find himself increasingly facing cashflow problems, but that is the job of treasury...to find money for gov to spend and spend.
KRA is, yet again, missing the collection targets.
The reason are:
The Treasury said by the end of December 2015 there was a huge shortfall in ordinary revenue collection made of a Sh26 billion deficit in Pay-As-You-Earn (PAYE) revenue and a Sh15.9 billion shortfall in Value Added Tax collection from imports.
Although the Treasury did not publish the actual half-year ordinary revenue targets, its data indicated that by close of December the total cumulative revenue, including Appropriations-in-Aid (A-I-A), amounted to Sh575.2 billion against a target of Sh642.9 billion, implying a total shortfall of Sh67.7 billion.
“Ordinary revenue collection was below target by Sh47.6 billion while A-I-A collection fell short of target by Sh20 billion,” the Treasury says in its recently released Budget Policy Statement.
Source: http://www.businessdailyafrica.com/KRA-set-to-miss-Treasury-s-Sh1-2trn-tax-collection-target---/-/539552/3139916/-/74axmdz/-/index.html
No new income is being generated.
It is no wonder that credit ratings agency Fitch Ratings has downgraded Kenya’s credit outlook from stable to negative, citing increased borrowing by the government amid higher spending and weak revenue collection.
The rapid debt growth, unfortunately, is not being matched by the increase in revenue collection.
Business Daily Editorial: Heed WB warning on ballooning debt burden (http://EDITORIAL: Heed WB warning on ballooning debt burden)
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Almost complete?
Yeah, near complete, there is a small stretch near Kakamega & kisumu town that need a lot of work done.
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The remaining section is small compared to what is done. I would say it 95% done.
Almost complete?
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I'm not sure if bad thing to not to meet an ambitious target; treasury need to set up ambitious target for KRA; but obviously If KRA was to fight graft; then they can exceed target; also some moronic VAT decision like enviromental tax of 200k for old cars means those target won't be meet.
I disagree that on spending..we are not overspending...we don't have the capacity to spend our budget...unless we do what Waiguru did...pad zeros..most of "money" is returned back to treasury unspent. There is a lot that need to be done to ensure budgeted projects are executed.
What I agree on...treasury is increasingly finding itself on a hole...because the percentage of money that MUST be paid directly from consolidated account (that cannot be postphoned) is becoming a concern...this include salaries, pensions, debt repayment, cdf, capitation for schools & hospitals, and now counties...so whenever KRA has the usual monthly swings...treasury has to rush to borrow at unsustainable interest rates.
UhuRuto should look at reforming KRA and firing all the top guys.
KRA is, yet again, missing the collection targets.
The reason are:
The Treasury said by the end of December 2015 there was a huge shortfall in ordinary revenue collection made of a Sh26 billion deficit in Pay-As-You-Earn (PAYE) revenue and a Sh15.9 billion shortfall in Value Added Tax collection from imports.
Although the Treasury did not publish the actual half-year ordinary revenue targets, its data indicated that by close of December the total cumulative revenue, including Appropriations-in-Aid (A-I-A), amounted to Sh575.2 billion against a target of Sh642.9 billion, implying a total shortfall of Sh67.7 billion.
“Ordinary revenue collection was below target by Sh47.6 billion while A-I-A collection fell short of target by Sh20 billion,” the Treasury says in its recently released Budget Policy Statement.
Source: http://www.businessdailyafrica.com/KRA-set-to-miss-Treasury-s-Sh1-2trn-tax-collection-target---/-/539552/3139916/-/74axmdz/-/index.html
No new income is being generated.
It is no wonder that credit ratings agency Fitch Ratings has downgraded Kenya’s credit outlook from stable to negative, citing increased borrowing by the government amid higher spending and weak revenue collection.
The rapid debt growth, unfortunately, is not being matched by the increase in revenue collection.
Business Daily Editorial: Heed WB warning on ballooning debt burden (http://EDITORIAL: Heed WB warning on ballooning debt burden)
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Since it came to power, Jubilee has trumpeted all sorts of "achievements". A problem with some of these "achievements" is that they boil down to little more than being a recipient of free off-budget money, and "issues" arise when there is a reduction in the free money. Here is a recent example:
Health
Ruto noted Kenyans were now enjoying free maternity services and this has increased the number of deliveries in public hospitals. Governors have, however, been complaining that the Government has delayed to disburse funds to finance the programme.“Three years ago, 500,000 were on anti-retroviral drugs (ARVs) but now we have 800,000 on ARVs. Under the Managed Equipment Service, we are targeting 94 hospitals and we will spend Sh38 billion in ten years,” Ruto announced.
We had similar stories in 2015, at which point I wrote:
The point is that the provision of ARVs is almost entirely due to foreign funding (free money) from others, and most of it from the USA. To claim that as a Jubilee achievement is very funny, given that the funding has been going on for much longer than Jubilee has been around. To say that Jubilee government is trying to do more is similarly funny; it is those foreign funders that are planning to do more. The only thing Jubilee can say it that it is not getting in the way.
On this thread: http://www.nipate.org/index.php?topic=2601.0
Today's Daily Nation reports some difficulties with Jubilee's "achievements" and plans to "achieve" even more in the same direction:
Blow to Aids patients as donor funds shrink
Donor funding for Aids drugs in low and low middle-income countries such as Kenya has shrunk by more than Sh100 billion, putting the lives of millions of patients at risk.
http://www.nation.co.ke/news/Blow-to-Aids-patients-as-donor-funds-shrink/-/1056/3300368/-/vybysez/-/index.html
And the figures are interesting:
The cost of treating nearly 940,000 Kenyans currently enrolled in the antiretroviral programme is Sh18.4 billion — nearly 30 per cent of the national Ministry of Health budget.
The government only contributes Sh900 million annually.
http://www.nation.co.ke/news/Blow-to-Aids-patients-as-donor-funds-shrink/-/1056/3300368/-/vybysez/-/index.html
Red: According to my rough calculations, that's around 4%.
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Very lame. Donors are working with Gov's NASCOP to implement this...and so gov can trumphet this as a success. If this was entirely NGO-donor thing then GOV would be misleading here. Donors provide money..but gov does the bulk of the work including sourcing for drugs and making them available to HIV patients.
Since it came to power, Jubilee has trumpeted all sorts of "achievements". A problem with some of these "achievements" is that they boil down to little more than being a recipient of free off-budget money, and "issues" arise when there is a reduction in the free money. Here is a recent example:
Health
Ruto noted Kenyans were now enjoying free maternity services and this has increased the number of deliveries in public hospitals. Governors have, however, been complaining that the Government has delayed to disburse funds to finance the programme.“Three years ago, 500,000 were on anti-retroviral drugs (ARVs) but now we have 800,000 on ARVs. Under the Managed Equipment Service, we are targeting 94 hospitals and we will spend Sh38 billion in ten years,” Ruto announced.
We had similar stories in 2015, at which point I wrote:
The point is that the provision of ARVs is almost entirely due to foreign funding (free money) from others, and most of it from the USA. To claim that as a Jubilee achievement is very funny, given that the funding has been going on for much longer than Jubilee has been around. To say that Jubilee government is trying to do more is similarly funny; it is those foreign funders that are planning to do more. The only thing Jubilee can say it that it is not getting in the way.
On this thread: http://www.nipate.org/index.php?topic=2601.0
Today's Daily Nation reports some difficulties with Jubilee's "achievements" and plans to "achieve" even more in the same direction:
Blow to Aids patients as donor funds shrink
Donor funding for Aids drugs in low and low middle-income countries such as Kenya has shrunk by more than Sh100 billion, putting the lives of millions of patients at risk.
http://www.nation.co.ke/news/Blow-to-Aids-patients-as-donor-funds-shrink/-/1056/3300368/-/vybysez/-/index.html
And the figures are interesting:
The cost of treating nearly 940,000 Kenyans currently enrolled in the antiretroviral programme is Sh18.4 billion — nearly 30 per cent of the national Ministry of Health budget.
The government only contributes Sh900 million annually.
http://www.nation.co.ke/news/Blow-to-Aids-patients-as-donor-funds-shrink/-/1056/3300368/-/vybysez/-/index.html
Red: According to my rough calculations, that's around 4%.