Angelica _ann wrote:Ericsson wrote:KaunganaDoDo wrote:Ericsson wrote:KaunganaDoDo wrote:Ericsson wrote:kawi254 wrote:Ericsson wrote:watesh wrote:FUNKY wrote:https://www.nation.co.ke/news/Treasury-eyes-parastatals-to-ease-biting-cash-crunch/1056-5349378-14e81ys/index.html
Kengen issuing a special dividend is highly possible
This will mean a future slowdown in the development of power generation by Kengen and push that money to fund a broke government....the result is higher debts for Kengen in future or a dividend drought
Let's wait and see
If hypothetically KenGen managed 4 Billion in special dividend to GoK that is such a drop in the ocean...money that Jubilee Govt will gobble up in less than a day.
At some point GoK will have to go to IMF/World Bank and the conditions they will be given will take us back to the 90's of mass civil service layoffs, restructuring of these very same parastatal cash cows.
World Bank/IMF is next year.
IMF said they have ksh.153bn or $1bn standby to assist kenya subject to terms and conditions.
One of the conditions was to repeal interest rates cap law
The standby credit facility from the IMF is not for budgetary support or development programmes, but for macroeconomic stability on volatility of exchange rates...its a dollar facility to CBK to stabilization of exchange rate fluctuations. Its not Government/Treasury blank cheque
Loan from IMF in the works for budgetary support similar to what happened in Egypt and Ghana
IMF doesn't do budgetary support. They do macroeconomic Stabilization Credit Facility. If you have to ask for budgetary support, You have to be under debt repudiation or default...
They do to avoid governments from crowding out private sector in borrowing from the domestic market.
This is in countries which have wide budget deficits
IMF are leeches, Kibaki tamed them, let's see what next. By so far so good on this front for us Kenyans.

Do not blame the IMF for your failures. #KumiraKumira
Is GoK approaching the IMF for a facility or is the IMF forcing it onto GoK at gunpoint?
It's like going to a bank for a loan after blowing your cash (& taking on huge loans) on building a brand-new unnecessarily fancy and over-sized roof on your hut when repairing your simple roof would have worked just as well.
And paying for planning and designing a pond on sandy soil.
Then keeping a fleet of taxis that lose money year in, year out because it makes you look prosperous.
Not to forget hiring your relatives and drinking buddies to manage your businesses.
Fancy roof = SGR
Simple roof = NGR
Pond = Kimwarer
Taxis = KQ
Relatives = Relatives
Businesses = Take your pick
Greedy when others are fearful. Very fearful when others are greedy - to paraphrase Warren Buffett