aren't the polical theatrics of the weekend going to severely hurt the recent recovery of share prices at the NSE.What if the PM decides to pull off the government? Fresh elections and the related political risks !!

I doubt it. The PM is not as popular as he used to be. If he quite only a small part of the railway will be uprooted.... then repaired....

The entire economy will be affected if the government falls...

1) Increased corruption as it will be evidence of no action by kibaki & friends. Note his group control the financial strings (uhuru, kinyua, ndungu) of Kenya. (Banks will suffer from higher defaults)

2) Any violence means tourism (TPSEA & KQ) will suffer.

3) Farmers in RV will be reluctant to buy new tractors, lorries & pickups (CMC). Imports & exports suffer (Express)

4) Violence means loss of property. Insurance firms like Jubilee, Pan African & Kenya Re will see losses. Also add banks to this group as defaults rise since 'collateral' is destroyed.

@GG, I beg to differ. I think a semblance of stability would be better for the economy.... We are yet to recover proper from 2008. Why would we want to go that way again?

@GG - I know what you mean... I think we should have let the PEV run its course in 2008 but we just postponed the inevitable...

Anyway, I want the peace to hold until I can sell off all I have... maybe shift it to Namibia!!! @the deal?

We expected some differences in the coalition govt. Since none of the principals and their members are going anywhere, life continues. RAO is isolated so no risk of a destabilsed country, confused yes.

GG, I agree we need decisive leadership. This mseto thing is just not going to help the economy. I was looking at the Vision 2030 medium term plan and the projected growth for 2009-2010 was 7.9-8.7%. We can't even do half of that this year. Just do a new voter register, minimum constitutional reforms and lets go to the debe.

I totally agree with you.

It's when the Kalenjin Warriors and Taliban are on the same side that the country is in serious problems...railways on their own can be fixed.

@vvs corruption in Namibia is always dealt with an iron fist...Namibia is just like Botswana...only that Namibia has a bigger population than Botswana @ 2mil compared to Botswana 1.6mil but the namibian stock exchange(nsx) is more liquid and its now the 2nd in Africa in terms of market capitalisation the only problems is its mostly dominated by institutional investors...sam nujoma is now retired hardly speaks....ja his name was named in few corruption scandals notably the avid scandal where the mastermind commited suicide before prosecution, the goverment was able to recover the money lost...something the GOK cant do...