Today i was in a matatu along Thika Road and there was this two guys discussing a host of issues. They were informed guys. from FPE funds ..how the Keroka villagers were demonstrating that their 'son' Ongeri should not step down...which leaves people where are their sons..do they attend school . Do they know where the Ongeri's grandsons are schooling? So they went on to the Thika road construction. They noted how the Chinese companies were doing a great job putting up Mega structures. the banter went on about how some shitty local companies had formed a consortium and were petitioning why the Kenyan govt was giving the Chinese all those multi-billion contracts....Though am a patriot i don't give adamn whether you are a Kenya giving me a shitty service i would opt for a Haitian offering superb quality.
Going back into history you will find the same companies crying out loud today have backlog of cases claiming money for contracts they never did or did shoddily. Though i feel we need to check the Sino-Kenya relationship i think the Kenyan firms have put the pepper in their eyes.
Imagine a situation one local firm won the Thika road tender... they would hurriedly put some funny structure and rush to State House to claim payments...Uncle Impunity would look at them and ask how the damn mavi ya kuku project is going?
Uncle Impunity: so mmeliza kazi...nilidhani ilikuwa inaisha 1912
PA (whoever handles that shit): The project no 214GHG6655 in ... was supposed to end in 2012
UI: (Interrupting PA)..haina haja ya maneno mingi walipe
Engineer A: pay them?! the contract has not meet our standards
UI: Standard kitu gani haina haja kutest barabara bora gari zinapita..lipa wao
CC:(Grinning from ass to ass) Asante mzee ....ile nyumba ya Forest Rd ulisema tutaanza lini?
UI: Mavi ya kuku i have hired Engineers from S. Korea to build that house.
.......So you see the local companies fucked themselves up themselves. The only thing that aches me is that it aint Chinese doing any work on Thika Rd it is Kenyans. The Chinese are only carrying away the profits back home ....the taxes ..we are building the Chinese economy while we are being told they are helping us.
so changamoto ni kwa Kenyan companies. When will we learn to manage our most important national resource : the people. The labour force of Kenya. When will Kenyan companies start paying well their employees so that they can deliver quality jobs as they deliver when the manage is a Chinese or a white man like Michael Joseph or Atul Shah in Bidco
To be continued
No comments:
Post a Comment