Blue Economy is Uhuru Kenyatta's Next Theft Frontier
Mr. Uhuru Kenyatta is undoubtedly one of
the wealthiest Africans living today. But he is part of a flawed system. One
that does not believe in wealth creation through right economics such as innovative
means. He is a son of a man whose most
known avenues to riches was exploitation of natural resources – chief among
them land – and state plunder. That man is Johnston Kamau wa Ngengi, aka
Kenyatta Jomo. Uhuru, after capturing the state did not do anything better than
devising better means of doing what his father did. Plunder and loot Kenya dry.
Uhuru’s economics have been criticized and his love for quick money is
unrivaled. Kenya today is in the league of the countries that are most
indebted, especially to China. China is known to provide “easy” money. Easy in the
sense of quick and immediate money. Uhuru loves quick money just like his father
did. It does not take a lot of pain to grab land as it would to imagine a system
of governance that creates room for innovation and diversification of incomes.
The former is easier and straightforward and the latter is more difficult, more
technical, more time consuming. The quick money mentality does not leave room
in Kenyatta’s empty mind to imagine a better Kenya where opportunities for
innovation and slow, painful, sustainable wealth creation process are birthed
and implemented.
Uhuru Kenyatta is leading one of the
most thieving governments in Kenya’s history. There is not language better
understood by Uhuru’s corrupt and inept regime as borrowing (to steal) and thoughtless
exploitation of natural resources. Quick money it is. They have blundered
everything on land and now, led by Uhuru, they have turned their eyes to the
seas. So they are now singing blue economy. Here you people. Blue economy is
one of those lazy economics. It is not going to better lives of ordinary folk.
If anything, this is a new front of natural resource plunder.
Uhuru’s new found love
for the so called blue economy is not because he now so cares about the peasants.
In fact, the reverse is the case. Blue economy is one of those lucrative mega
trade ventures that typically exclusively benefit the bourgeoisie. Here is the
thing. You simply want to go into the deep seas, harvest huge amounts of fish,
prepare your catch right in the sea, package and export the fish products.
Period.
Obviously, this is a
venture that requires huge sums money given the equipment and expertise yet
generally it has no direct benefit to the peasant since less manpower is
required and the less that is required will be procured from international
market (which must be the one domesticating it you know) meaning financial
flight as usual. Two, peasants do not own the kind of machinery needed such as
the factory ships neither do peasants know how to operate them. Furthermore
peasants are assumed to be generally unteachable hence incapable of being
trained to acquire the skill to do this, no? I hope you have not forgotten that
recently the spokesman of your government was on a TV that you pay (probably to
the Chinese - you know set top boxes?) to watch defending Chinese racism
experienced by Kenyans working at the stinky Standard Gauge Railway (SGR) on account that Kenyans are lazy and
when Chinese teach them they (Kenyans) start complaining and calling that
racism and discrimination.
So. Here is the thing.
If Uhuru is enthusiastic about the blue economy, probably that is one of the
destinations he wants to head to when he retires in 2022. The rich kid he is,
having become president just like his dad, and having looted Kenya maybe better
than his father did, what would prevent him from deploying few trawlers to the
high seas to mint few more billions in retirement just as he engages in
periodic patrols on expensive yachts? Nothing. Hear you Kenyans, blue economy
is not about you.
Blue Economy is Uhuru Kenyatta's Next Theft Frontier
Reviewed by Ibrahim Magara
on
November 20, 2018
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