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31 BILLION for the next General Election???
matata
#1 Posted : Tuesday, May 15, 2012 7:16:56 PM
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Honestly, am I the only one who feels that's too much? They had better do a good job if the budget is approved. Gosh!
Kratos
#2 Posted : Tuesday, May 15, 2012 7:32:35 PM
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Remember that this still does not cover the costs of the election aftermath. Salaries for MPigs, Senpigs, govpigs etc.... we are in for a rude awakening when KRA comes for our pockets....Pray Pray

“People will believe a big lie sooner than a little one, and if you repeat it frequently enough, people will sooner or later believe it.” ― Walter C. Langer
QW25091985
#3 Posted : Tuesday, May 15, 2012 7:40:42 PM
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aiiigh . nani huyu anatafuta campaign money this much !
Impunity
#4 Posted : Tuesday, May 15, 2012 7:49:29 PM
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I had Mr.Rat eater alleging that it cost a minimum of Kes.50-Miaow to hold an erection in one constituency!
If you multiply 50-Mirrion with all the proposed constituencies, 47 shietnators, 47 Gobblerners, women reps, toi reps and walemavu reps, then I think 31-Birrion is within.
Pray Pray
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essyk
#5 Posted : Tuesday, May 15, 2012 8:16:50 PM
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Kuna vile hii serikali huchokesha watu.
Isn't it obvious that time to eat is here?


"The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
Lolest!
#6 Posted : Tuesday, May 15, 2012 9:35:44 PM
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This is the choice Kenyans took when we voted YES for the new katiba. Let us live with it and stop complaining.
Laughing out loudly smile Applause d'oh! Sad Drool Liar Shame on you Pray
murchr
#7 Posted : Tuesday, May 15, 2012 9:51:45 PM
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Lolest! wrote:
This is the choice Kenyans took when we voted YES for the new katiba. Let us live with it and stop complaining.


ditto Laughing out loudly
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Mastermind
#8 Posted : Tuesday, May 15, 2012 10:14:33 PM
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Thats why this party hoppers should be left alone or is FORA going to fund the by-elections?
If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.
YesuWangu
#9 Posted : Wednesday, May 16, 2012 7:56:44 AM
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murchr wrote:
Lolest! wrote:
This is the choice Kenyans took when we voted YES for the new katiba. Let us live with it and stop complaining.


ditto Laughing out loudly

ditto Laughing out loudly Laughing out loudly
matata
#10 Posted : Wednesday, May 16, 2012 8:06:16 AM
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Yah, I too feel the party hoppers should be left to survive for the few months. Who will fund the mini by elections for half of the parliamentarians going by the statistics of 50M per constituency?? then it means poor Kenyans digging dipper into their pockets yet the Mpigs do not by any chance give a hoot!!!
McReggae
#11 Posted : Wednesday, May 16, 2012 8:56:10 AM
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So fellows should just be breaking the law with abandon, huh!!!!!.....they has to be a price to pay in order to end impunity in this country.
..."Wewe ni mtu mdogo sana....na mwenye amekuandika pia ni mtu mdogo sana!".
panomaz
#12 Posted : Wednesday, May 16, 2012 9:00:28 AM
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we should look at this as a business opportunity...
Any ideas on how we can get a piece of the cakeThink Think Think Think
Don't limit your challenges, but challenge your limits
Rahatupu
#13 Posted : Wednesday, May 16, 2012 10:03:06 AM
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McReggae wrote:
So fellows should just be breaking the law with abandon, huh!!!!!.....they has to be a price to pay in order to end impunity in this country.
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A breakdown of the budget reveals several loopholes and inconsistencies.
1. Why spend 4 billion on civic education and 1.?b on voter education? Anybody who is not educated does not deserve the vote. (universal suffrage is a fallacy).
2. The money budgeted for buying vehicles is outrageous.
3. Why pay for security when then police will provide it?
4. The recurrent expenditure needs to be scrutinized in finer detail
essyk
#14 Posted : Wednesday, May 16, 2012 10:21:39 AM
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Rahatupu wrote:
McReggae wrote:
So fellows should just be breaking the law with abandon, huh!!!!!.....they has to be a price to pay in order to end impunity in this country.
.

A breakdown of the budget reveals several loopholes and inconsistencies.
1. Why spend 4 billion on civic education and 1.?b on voter education? Anybody who is not educated does not deserve the vote. (universal suffrage is a fallacy).
2. The money budgeted for buying vehicles is outrageous.
3. Why pay for security when then police will provide it?
4. The recurrent expenditure needs to be scrutinized in finer detail


That is my beef with them!! They have been using hired vehicles.They prefer BUYING new ones this time round.
My question is,why pump billions into buying new vehicles for a short term project.I say short term cz these vehicles will not be in the same condition come 2018.ie if they will even be there. It's just a scandal in the making.

Quote:
Why pay Ksh. 500 per person to the lawyers administering the oaths? These oaths are not individual but group oaths eg in all Kasarani electoral officials will congregate at the stadium and in exactly one minute, almost a thousand persons take the oath. .

from a poster.

And here I was thinking that this was an E-Election!!

"The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
McReggae
#15 Posted : Wednesday, May 16, 2012 10:23:34 AM
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Rahatupu wrote:
McReggae wrote:
So fellows should just be breaking the law with abandon, huh!!!!!.....they has to be a price to pay in order to end impunity in this country.
.

A breakdown of the budget reveals several loopholes and inconsistencies.
1. Why spend 4 billion on civic education and 1.?b on voter education? Anybody who is not educated does not deserve the vote. (universal suffrage is a fallacy).
2. The money budgeted for buying vehicles is outrageous.
3. Why pay for security when then police will provide it?
4. The recurrent expenditure needs to be scrutinized in finer detail


My comment was in relation to the party hoppers, not the 31B budget!!!
..."Wewe ni mtu mdogo sana....na mwenye amekuandika pia ni mtu mdogo sana!".
QW25091985
#16 Posted : Wednesday, May 16, 2012 10:32:22 AM
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panomaz wrote:
we should look at this as a business opportunity...
Any ideas on how we can get a piece of the cakeThink Think Think Think


if you got a good tshirt, caps, bags printing business you should be roaring with profits this election season ! just try to quote a low price than the competitor and have superior material .
QW25091985
#17 Posted : Wednesday, May 16, 2012 10:33:57 AM
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YesuWangu wrote:
murchr wrote:
Lolest! wrote:
This is the choice Kenyans took when we voted YES for the new katiba. Let us live with it and stop complaining.


ditto Laughing out loudly

ditto Laughing out loudly Laughing out loudly


ditto Laughing out loudly Laughing out loudly Laughing out loudly
essyk
#18 Posted : Wednesday, May 16, 2012 10:35:46 AM
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Kenya’s poll among world’s most expensive
http://www.standardmedia...e/?articleID=2000057945

If a budget of Sh35 billion were approved, it would work out to some $10 per person and a whopping $23 per voter.

When Nicaragua went to the polls in 1990 in the wake of the brutal Sandinista regime, it spent $11.8 per voter.

Angola spent $22 a voter in 1992 in the first elections after a 17-year civil

Liberia ($6.1)

El Salvador ($4.1)

much of the cost went to peacekeeping operations.
“Low costs of about $1 to $3 per voter are common in the United States and most of Western Europe,”

“A number of nations around the world also report low costs, including Benin ($1.6), Botswana ($2.7), Ghana ($0.7) and Senegal ($1.2) in Africa.”

We can't even afford it! that is the sad part.
Richer countries spend less but here we are as usual trying to reach out to what we cant afford.
Even the excuses given aren't good enough cz we aren't that unique.

This is what will happen,We will be forced go begging for funds and the donors will determine how the elections will go.
The vote is already cast!



I feel very sad for this NationSad



"The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
Intelligentsia
#19 Posted : Wednesday, May 16, 2012 4:43:18 PM
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With 31b you can make another Thika Superhighway and fund the Free Primary thieves...er sorry, I meant Education, for a full year.
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