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Top officials behind the Adani deal don't have Kenya's interest at heart

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Jomo Kenyatta International Airport in Nairobi. [File, Standard]

Kenya is going through self-inflicted agony due to high powered incompetence which manifests itself in mega corruption. Those in power give the impression that they do not care about the country's wellbeing as they indulge in widespread extravagance. Reports from the Auditor General reveal systematic rot at the national core. Governors become overnight billionaires, ministers increase their official wealth in millions, and leaders playing Hustler Grandees keep piling taxes on impoverished Kenyans officially to pay external debts.

Kenyans, saddled with debts they know little about, watch 'leaders' wallow in insulting luxury as critical services to the public such as health and education disappear. The poor remain poor and subservient to external whims as entrusted state officials sacrifice national interests, including national security, at the altar of self-aggrandisement and praises by external 'friends'.

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