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Senior government officials face criticism over their response to rising fuel prices and worsening cost of living in Kenya. [Courtesy, Standard]
The national government’s response to the astronomical rise in fuel prices has been farcical, provocative, and absurd, but unexpected of a predatory and inept regime.
Farcical because the President and his Cabinet Secretaries (CSs) are lamenting and pretending to be helpless and innocent to explain away the regime’s complicity in inept policies that birthed this crisis.
It is provocative for State officials to dismiss wise counsel from independent economists and fiscal planners that would have averted this artificial crisis or mitigated its most adverse effects. Instead of implementing urgent proactive measures to assuage public anxiety, the CSs in charge of Energy and the National Treasury have resorted to shrill sermons and Orwellian platitudes to protect the regime’s image.
