[quote=Kusadikika]Lappset. As soon as the plans were made, greedy Kenyans went and bought Burotis on the whole proposed railway, pipeline network from Lamu to Ethiopia and South Sudan so as to gain from Government compensation.

More than 18 years after Eric Wainaina told us we are a small minded country, we have not changed one bit. For most of Kenyans the ultimate achievement is to be a landlord.



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Actually, what happened after the President went there and made a rant over these people who had "acquired" other people's land? We all blamed Orengo for the mess at the Ministry of Land. Mama Ngilu went and issued titles to people but what about the speculators?

I like to go here -> https://www.skyscrapercity.com/forumdisplay.php?f=2146 for info on those projects. You'll find good fact based info too instead of the panganga peddled by our media houses.

[quote=Kusadikika]Lappset. As soon as the plans were made, greedy Kenyans went and bought Burotis on the whole proposed railway, pipeline network from Lamu to Ethiopia and South Sudan so as to gain from Government compensation.

More than 18 years after Eric Wainaina told us we are a small minded country, we have not changed one bit. For most of Kenyans the ultimate achievement is to be a landlord.



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Eti ultimate achievement is to be a landlord?
Nowonder those who wins kes.50,000 from Shinda na Shabiki wanna be "ladlods".

:-d :-d :-d

That Aquifer in Lotikipi was found to be all salt water thus unusable for humans, plants and animals.

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And What's wrong with this? Profiting from government and corruption and abuse of office are not the same thing. People should not be ashamed to make money... THAT'S HOW THIS COUNTRY WILL DEVELOP!![/quote]

In fact the exact opposite of this is true. Land speculation is detrimental to development. It creates a situation where the value of land becomes too inflated as is the case in Nairobi now. Imagine if a foreign investor is choosing between setting up a factory in Addis Ababa vs Nairobi. If cost of land is his primary decision factor, he will give Nairobi a wide berth.

So basically Kenya is losing job creating ventures and instead much of the land goes to speculators who hardly create any jobs.

Also service delivery by the government is affected. If the gava has to pay more compensation to these land speculators, then they will have less money to build much needed infrastructure which means fewer jobs created and less services delivered by the government.

As Kusadikika pointed out above, the cost of some infrastructure projects is sky high because gava has to compensate speculators. Many gava projects are hindered because of this. The cost to Kenyans is bigger because lack of proper infrastructure means less development and fewer jobs and fewer business opportunities. Basically Kenyans lose and speculators win.