Wednesday, February 04, 2009

More ideas for raising revenue

It looks like a couple of the 16 budget-filling ideas that GoK lined up maybe derailed (KPC IPO definetely looks off by the day). For the time being anyway. So how about the following to plug the ever expanding Budget deficit:
  1. Sell statehouses/lodges: I know that baba jimmy only uses two of those. I can't recall him at Nakuru and rarely at the Kakamega and Sagana ones. Why not sell them? Alternatively free up this prime land in Nakuru and the other 2 for some of the IDPs. As for Momba's state house. Kibz already has a house in Nyali. The statehouse is on prime coast land which some hotel mogul would want to buy.
  2. Reduce the motorcades: The oldman travels in a motorcade of like 40 cars. Stupid because it holds up traffic for 30+ minutes (wasted economy production). Sell and leave a realistic and common sense 10 car motorcade. The sale (30*1m per car) will at Ksh35k per household, build homes for like a 1,000 IDP households. Add a similar trim on each of the ministers and hey presto, we have IDPs resettled.
  3. Fire Saitoti, Makwere and outsource their ministries to some of the idle ministers-what Dalmas do all day?

The above excludes all the other obvious ideas that if this was a listening government, would easily go thru. Reducing the cabinent to a managable 20 is a no-brainer. Taxing MPs is a no-brainer.

2 comments:

bankelele said...

Spending, not revenue is the problem in GoK: Failure to reform government is the root of the problem, and where reform has been done it is problematic, with duplicating new bureaucratic arms (KACC/NASCOP, PPOA/KACC, REA/KPLC/Kengen/GDC), billions spent on new vehicles, duplicating ministries (new brand/stationery/office spaces/furniture which each cabinet reshuffle) with officers a-- producing their own glossy reports, organizing conferences, consuming imprests, new offices, (PM, first lady) etc.

MainaT said...

Banks, if I was to offer you a job where it never mattered what you did, you could set your own salary, it'd take a high degree of integrity not to go the way these guys have gone...