It's good for Kenyans. Government made the environment friendly for foreign companies to invest, build facilities or partnerships with local businesses for services and production.

Projects include - Private-Public ​Partnerships contracts for infrastructure, CIC call centres in Tatu city SEZ, Jumbo Car dealership NSEZ, Eco Cloud Data Centre/ Green Ammonia - Olkaria Park, Green Hydrogen Facilities - Mombasa, Geothermal, wind & Solar plants, Start ups. Textile plants. Semiconductor fabrication.

It creates jobs, high skill and tech transfer, money also flows into local businesses. Speeds up industrialization.

Inflation is at +5.0%. due to some factors; shilling appreciation, increased taxes, fuel cost and drought/flood induced food shortages.

There's pragmatism not optimism in following through not only in sensitisation but slow implementation. There's no need to announce that you are done caring, you've cultivated a negative outlook on most posts you respond to.

' Stagnating & regressing'. You might be disappointed at the rate of transition but that doesn't negate all the progress being done, especially in the private industry. That growth seems to have passed you by.

You're contributing to the victim Olympics that people keep upvoting on here. The ' We will always be a failed state, 3rd world country fatalism posts. '

Posts dscussing of government policies and trade, entrepreneurship, private industry get the silent treatment.

That's why trading as a bloc EAC has helped with negotiating power, plus the regional common market means better prices for consumers in the member states.

Definitely a very good sign for the EAC market, the next step is making intra Africa transport cheaper for - road, rail and air. Then consumers can really benefit.

With Uganda, Rwanda and DRC on board it's worth the price in the long run, the land acquisition is what inflated the cost the most. The $2.6 billion Naivasha - Malaba section makes it about $6 billion total. The land in Tz, Ug and RW is cheaper , the TZ - RW/BR/DRC will cost about $8 billion, when Kenya electrifies with land already bought it'll be $7-8 billion, making it roughly similar in price.

Kagame was always pro SGR, Museveni is pushing for it now but he also held up its progression from Naivasha by stalling Ug committment earlier in 2018. The TZ (central corridor) and KEN (Northern Corridor) were all EAC projects conceived in 2000 -10 by the committee on integration.

They adopted the flag colours after Kenya played a crucial role in S. Sudan's independence. The blue is for the Nile, the yellow star of Bethlehem.

When I'll point out deals from Russia, China and Iran that help grow Kenyans then you might know who I'm a bot for.

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