I must apologise profusely for shoving my foot right smack in the middle of the lofty dreams but i think it is just wicked, evil and conceited to even dream that we could afford to host the Olympics 2016. The country just has too many other more important matters (of life and death to the poorer citizenry) to concern itself with. The gov. is grappling with the task of raising funds to fund the expansion of our primary schools to accomodate the influx of students who took up the offer for free education... lets put aside some funds there.
Next, the gov. has to contend with Ngilu's health scheme that will take money from the rich to fund the provision of free healthcare to the poorer populace. For this, the gov has to undertake a serious re-evaluation of the quality of healthcare that we the kenyan populace deserve at an equal platform for the rich and poor alike and this will involve serious chums to upgrade all the district and provincial hospitals and even involve the building of new hospitals to cater for the influx of persons who will take up the free health care. Modern equipment will need to be bought for every provincial hospital to cater for serious health conditions eg. heart, lung, kidney ailmnts. Lets allocate some money there.
Next, the Nairobi City Council, which collects millions of shillings on a daily basis cannot afford to pay their staff's salaries for three months and all pending bills outstanding to suppliers of the council have been halted to enable it accumulate chums to pay the staff salaries and arrears. The situation is the same in Kisumu. Musikari Kombo tells us that the councils have no records with which to carry out any audits- internal or external; no profit and loss statement or any other sort of balance sheet or accounts can be prepared because of the jungle management of the council. So.... the govt must put in funds to undertake a radical surgery of the local administration in the country.
The list of concerns for the NARC government could go on and on and on. But more importantly is that the hosting of the Olympics involves billions of US Dollars and given that US$ 1B is equivalent to kiddo KShs. 80B and further given that our GDP (2003) was a humble US$ 13,842 as compared to Australia’s US$ 518,000 and Greece’s US$ 173,000, I doubt we shall be in the race. The IMF and World Bank would take a hike! See Worldbank statistics
Anyway… I have this feeling that our Minister for Sports had taken to much coffee in the January heat when he made the visionary statement!
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