That’s where am confused and worse of all he appointed people who were not even voted in .😢

The best place to start is when everyone knows the truth

Sheesh Rony. You enunciate really well brother.

What you are asking for is a small government. You are asking for cuts in the size of government, cut subsidies, cut entitlements, cut salaries, cut parastatals. Won't happen. The constitution is a democratic constitution. And democracy demands the sort of patronage we see with bloated government, bloated county governments, bloated salaries etc. Democracy is in practice just lagalized bribery. And our constitution is one long ode to bribery for votes. On the other hand, the elite in Kenya are obsessed with making Kenya like some Scandinavian country. They ceaselessly copy and paste European policies and plans without caring for the social economic situation in Kenya. European countries for example have plenty of natural resources to export, many of them have negligible defense budgets because they rely of the Americans. Unless Ruto digs our oil and refines it, unless he digs our coal and builds a coal power station, unless he digs our gas, everything Ruto is doing will fail.

@@josephmungai1799 I support this argument, we better take a loan to build our oil refinery plant, consume locally and export surplus... If not enough import little fuel. This will bring the cost of production low, which will lead to much production, increase exportation of produced goods. As a result shillings will have value, economy be stable etc... Collected revenue should be meticulously spent.. but Leaders have high expectations and stealing public funds for next Campaigns🤔😄

Many are quick to criticise a government that has done most of what it can to avert a crisis that was certain to come even if Baba were president. David Ndii's counsel to the president is at the heart of navigating a challenging economic situation that, in my view, very few other economists can even understand, let alone solve.

That is not a reserve of just this govt, it's a reality over the years.

He didn't offer solution on wastage and pilferage. Why not learn from the best: Kagame, Asia tiger, the West?

I have repeatedly listened to this sentiment and for some ordinary Citizen like us; we don't take it easy. it can be loosely translated to 'we should tighten our belts as we are driven to hell by this government'.

the price for peace, think of the opportunity cost....plus most of that govt expenditure is on wage bill...putting some money in the hands of kenyans so they can feed their families, i doubt that is harmful for the economy, dont think about this politically... but economically... then u would understand Ndii and not focus on nominal figures...Dont be fooled by the interviewer tryin to rile kenyans up, he probably understands but thats his job, to make headlines out of the nominal. Now youll hear, Ndii says govt cant stop being wasteful, without context,,,,makes for good clickbait. Like you, baited.

I wonder what happened to bottoms up

​@@samuelkamau1777 what bottom up😅😅😅😅

That's why most if not all developing countries have no policies in place to monitor how campaign money is spent or raised. We shall continue PAYING in the next 20 or more years

🤣🤣🤣🤣Apo kwa stammer??

Do you know what duress means?

@@jameskamotho7513 tell us then?

You want to fire Ndii for stating the truth 😅. The office of the auditor general has been saying this since Moi was president. And it will continue until the culture of kuomoka, deals and tenders is no longer celebrated in this country.

Àa

It is not news that the Government wastes over 30% of the revenue collected. Are you a stranger in Jerusalem?

Ndii doesn't care. He's not an elected official, and neither is he the accounting officer in a Ministry, Department, or Agency.

Watu wa azimio tulia. Be better.

@@mx1616 it's not about Azimio, even you I know you've nothing right now and you're just crying like any other kenyan.

But it's the truth. Just look at the numbers. Veeeery easy!

Ndii is not running the country. Also, 1B in a 3T budget is similar to a shilling when you have 3 thousand shillings. Small change.

@@kijana2030"Take care of the penny and the pound will take care of itself", so goes the saying.

And much big corruption from the top

@@wilsonkinyua2154 Get over yourself, corruption has always been with us from 1963-to present

@@adamskimoni4375 Does that lessen its impact in mismanaging economic affairs?

@@georgeodhiambo598 Of course not, but he has been candid about that. Even expressing his frustration with some wastefulness in this regime.

If you have deficit to increase price of product when if the buyers cant buy? Do you go employing more workers and increasing salaries to some? This theories made many countries to fall.

sasa kundos ni nini🤬

Don't shoot the messenger. You have your elected officials who are supposed to be accountable to you. Put them to task, not a mere advisor who does not implement policies.

@@kijana2030 I think the advisor should be honest with the president . I have not heard Ndi faulting the president on the recent CAS appointment in the mid of the financial meltdown

@abdullahiaden1148 I think he even commended him for the appointments. He said it's cheaper than having another 2007/2008 PEV.

Do you even inderstand government ?

@@willybillylaw7339 We don't need to do whatever tha means. The thing is, the current politics doesn't make sense. State officials still blaming the last regime? No explanation of what public funds are doing? Truth is, in a democracy such officials ought to resign for failing to meet their mandate. Are we not a democracy? ....and please when you are done, a sub to this channel would be...Spek kk ta cc uu lar.

Let him tell us the bitter truth. Kenyans are still not angry enough.

Let people here what is bitter

Yani Dickson uko Kwa CHOO na Bado unataka kuhisi harufu ya perfume!?? 😀😀

But truth

no debt based economy is safe. And fractional Reserve Banking is just a house of cards waiting to collapse. So it is irrelevant who the personality is in charge, the system was designed to fail and fail it will.

Precisely. You can't fight/ cut the hand that feeds you without feeling the pitch.

Then you should be the new economic adviser

Me too

​@@wilsondominic8830 be civil. We are taxpayers

It's abhorrence when Kenyans when they don't understand complex matters they turn to simplistic jejune conjecture. David Ndii is telling the matter as it is, but you want to sacrifice him for tribal political correctness

We are doomed with the so called God chosen government..choices have consequences.

How much time is time? Ruto is being held to account on his own election pledges. He presented a manifesto which provides the checklist against which to judge his performance. Things can just be allowed to aimlessly slide along.

My friend...watch from 13.17...what part don't you understand...don't be narrow minded!

Justification of prime grade cretinism , primitive optics that glorify leakages because we are unable to amend. What a contradiction

@kenobumba8792 I'm not your friend, and I understood everything that Ndii said.

Exactly 💯. I remember Paul Mwangi saying that during the grand coalition government when he was RAOs' adviser, he would get 24k in airtime and no matter how much he called, he only ever spent an average of 2k per month. The rest he would give out to his friends and relatives. So, those close to power enjoy and perhaps don't mind this wastage...

​@jameskamotho7513 but friends and family isn't wasting..atleast walimpea naye akasaidia those who didn't have

You talk like a fool... informed of what.... you trust lies?

That's why Ruto is going around the world asking us to invest back home... 😢😢

Didn't Ruto know that there were public debts to be repaid? Didn't he state publicly that he had a solution on how debt would be repaid as he tackled bottom up economy? Stop being an apologist for the regime. Judge it on its own election pledges. Kenyans must wake up and demand that leaders say what they will do, and do what they have said. Stop glorifying lies and conmanship

You must mention azimio to justify the mistake you did august last year

I agree with you be it in public institutions nor private institutions corruption everywhere now tell me how can a nation develop,,,,for instance how much did the former regime stole from poor kenyans,,,,if even covid aid was stolen by wealthy families in kenya now tell me after this administration how much are we going to loose as a nation

​@@bonifacekasoka4048 wiokasoka .

Wakenya munapenda uongo. Mukuamviwa ukweli mnaona nikama nyinyi ni wajinga..Change or Perish

Nothing but the truth. For telling us the truth

Economic Mahuire means?!

Azimio said they were going to effort on eliminating corruption being the major problem this current regime said corruption wasn't a priority to the country they said their priority was to shift focus from trickle down to bottom up economic model. Subsidies production and not consumption is now crystal clear Azimio had better brains than what we opted for.

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I also wonder after all those stomach money waste

Losing weight because of his sins above all lies

Pewa

There was a time I was involved in government (though I was working in the private sector), and I started getting hefty allowances to attend meetings. Let me tell you Maina, I looked forward to attending those meetings just for the trips and allowances. This is what is meant by wastage. There was even an employee of a regulatory authority who was either in workshops, training, benchmarking tours, seminars, etc for 9 months in a calendar year. For the remaining 3 months, 2 were spent on leave. Meaning the employee was in the office for 1 month only. The same authority also bought iPhone 14s as Christmas presents for the board in the middle of a drought.

​@@kijana2030sad indeed how 3rd world countries forget where they're coming and going..Kenya is being washed down the trenches 😢😢😢😢

NO, no Sussy, the method that the government is using to collect the tax is very wrong and insufficient.

we rather have someone who tells him the truth than people who booty-lick him all day for 365 days a year until his entire term is over like Uhuru's people!

To buy loyality

Nothing. Ndii is on record that they did not run on an anticorruption platform.

@@kijana2030 Exactly. Most people did not register that comment by Ndii. There is one thing you can't take away from Ndii. He is very honest.